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Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW

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Fungal Diversity<br />

Fig. 65 Neomassariosphaeria<br />

typhicola (from IFRD 2018). a<br />

Immersed ascomata gregarious<br />

in the host substrate. b–d<br />

Cylindro-clavate asci embedded<br />

in pseudoparaphyses. Note the<br />

phragmosporous ascospores.<br />

Scale bars: a=200 μm,<br />

b–d=20 μm<br />

Generic description<br />

Habitat terrestrial, parasitic or saprobic. Ascomata small,<br />

forming in leaf spots, scattered or clustered, immersed,<br />

depressed globose, under clypeus, coriaceous. Peridium thin.<br />

Hamathecium of dense, cellular pseudoparaphyses, septate,<br />

embedded in mucilage. Asci 8-spored, bitunicate, fissitunicate<br />

dehiscence not observed, broadly cylindrical to oblong,<br />

with a short furcate pedicel. Ascospores obliquely uniseriate<br />

and partially overlapping, oblong, pale brown, 1-3-septate.<br />

Anamorphs reported for genus: Coniothyrium-like<br />

(Câmara et al. 2003).<br />

Literature: Câmara et al. 2001, 2003; Checa et al. 2002;<br />

Ellis and Everhart 1892.

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