Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW
Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW
Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW
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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).