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Fungal Diversity<br />

Phylogenetic study<br />

None.<br />

Concluding remarks<br />

Its small-sized ascomata, broadly cylindrical to slightly<br />

obclavate asci with a short, thick, knob-like pedicel, as well<br />

as its monocotyledonous host preference point Metameris<br />

to the Phaeosphaeriaceae. But DNA comparisons are<br />

needed for confirmation.<br />

Mixtura O.E. Erikss. & J.Z. Yue, Mycotaxon 38: 203<br />

(1990). (Phaeosphaeriaceae)<br />

Generic description<br />

Habitat terrestrial, parasitic. Ascomata small-sized, scattered<br />

or clustered on the leaf spots, immersed, erumpent,<br />

minutely papillate, ostiolate. Papilla slightly raised. Peridium<br />

thin, comprising one cell type of lightly pigmented<br />

thin-walled cells of textura angularis. Hamathecium of<br />

dense, filliform, septate, cellular pseudoparaphyses, 4–<br />

6.3 μm broad, embedded in mucilage. Asci bitunicate,<br />

ovoid, with a very short stumpy pedicel. Ascospores fusoid<br />

to narrowly fusoid with broadly to narrowly rounded ends,<br />

curved, dark brown, multi-septate, distoseptate, with a germ<br />

pore at the lower end.<br />

Anamorphs reported for genus: none.<br />

Literature: Eriksson and Yue 1990.<br />

Type species<br />

Mixtura saginata (Syd.) O.E. Erikss. & J.Z. Yue, Mycotaxon<br />

38: 203 (1990). (Fig. 60)<br />

≡ Leptosphaeria saginata Syd., Annls mycol. 37: 376 (1939).<br />

Producing elongated yellow spots with brownish margins,<br />

leaf spots up to 45×3–5 mm, opposite side visible as a<br />

brownish spots (Fig. 60a). Ascomata 170–200 μm high×210–<br />

280 μm diam., scattered on the lower side of the leaf,<br />

immersed, erumpent, breaking through the epidermis, minutely<br />

papillate. Papilla central, slightly raised, ostiolate,<br />

ostiole surrounded by a white margin (Fig. 60b). Peridium<br />

22–34 μm wide, thicker at the apex, thinner at the base,<br />

comprising one cell type of lightly pigmented thin-walled<br />

cells of textura angularis, cells up to 6×8 μm diam., cell wall<br />

0.5–1.2 μm thick, apex cells smaller and walls thicker<br />

(Fig. 60c). Hamathecium of dense, filliform, septate, cellular<br />

pseudoparaphyses, 4–6.3 μm broad, embedded in mucilage.<br />

Asci 80–128×41–53(−69) μm (x ¼ 100:9 52:8mm, n =10),<br />

8-spored, bitunicate, fissitunicate dehiscence not observed,<br />

sac-like, with a very short stumpy pedicel and a small ocular<br />

chamber (Fig. 60d). Ascospores 86–94(−106)×20.5–23.5 μm<br />

(x ¼ 92:7 21:7mm, n=10), fasciculate, fusoid to narrowly<br />

fusoid, slightly curved, dark brown, 7-septate, distoseptate,<br />

with or without constriction at the primary septum, smoothwalled,<br />

with a germ pore at the lower end (Fig. 60e and f).<br />

Anamorph: none reported.<br />

Material examined: ECUADOR, Tungurahua, Hacienda<br />

San Antonio pr. Baños, Province, on the leaves of Chusqueae<br />

serrulatae Pilger., 9 Jan. 1938, H. Sydow. (S reg. nr F8934<br />

type, F8935isolectotype, asLeptosphaeria saginata).<br />

Notes<br />

Morphology<br />

Mixtura was formally established by Eriksson and<br />

Yue (1990) as a monotypic genus represented by M.<br />

saginata basedonitsimmersedandthin-walledascomata,<br />

sparse, broad pseudoparaphyses, sac-like asci with a short<br />

pedicel and thick apex. Mixtura has a “mixture” of<br />

characters found in other pleosporalean genera. The<br />

peridium structure is comparable with Phaeosphaeria,<br />

the ascospores with Trematosphaeria and asci with<br />

Wettsteinina (Eriksson and Yue 1990).Accordingtothe<br />

structure of ascomata and hamathecium, Mixtura was<br />

provisionally assigned to Phaeosphaeriaceae (Eriksson<br />

and Yue 1990).<br />

Phylogenetic study<br />

None.<br />

Concluding remarks<br />

Morphologically, the sparse broad pseudoparaphyses and<br />

sac-like asci with a thick apical structure in Mixtura seem<br />

more comparable with the generic type of Teratosphaeria<br />

(T. fibrillose Syd. & P. Syd., Teratosphaeriaceae, Capnodiales,<br />

Dothideomycetidae) than that of Phaeosphaeria (P.<br />

oryzae). The heavily pigmented, multi-septate ascospores<br />

and the persistent pseudoparaphyses of Mixtura however,<br />

differ from those of Teratosphaeria. Thus, here we assign<br />

Mixtura under Teratosphaeriaceae as a distinct genus until<br />

phylogenetic work is carried out.<br />

Montagnula Berl., Icon. fung. (Abellini) 2: 68 (1896).<br />

(Montagnulaceae)<br />

Generic description<br />

Habitat terrestrial, saprobic. Ascomata small- to mediumsized,<br />

immersed to erumpent, gregarious or grouped,<br />

globose to subglobose, black. Hamathecium of dense,<br />

narrowly cellular, septate pseudoparaphyses. Asci bitunicate,<br />

fissitunicate, usually cylindro-clavate to clavate with a<br />

long pedicel. Ascospores oblong to narrowly oblong,<br />

straight or somewhat curved, reddish brown to dark<br />

yellowish brown, muriform or phragmosporous.<br />

Anamorphs reported for genus: Aschersonia (Hyde et al. 2011).

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