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Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW

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Fungal Diversity<br />

Fig. 70 Ophiobolus<br />

disseminans (from BPI-629021,<br />

type). a Immersed ascomata<br />

scattered on the host surface.<br />

Note the erumpent papilla. b<br />

Section of an ascoma. c. Section<br />

of a partial peridium. Note the<br />

thick-walled outer layer and<br />

thin-walled inner layer (orange<br />

colour due to DIC). d Ascus<br />

with a short furcate pedicel. e<br />

Squash mount showing asci in<br />

pseudoparaphyses. Scale bars:<br />

a=0.5 mm, b=100 μm,<br />

c=50 μm, d, e=20 μm<br />

Notes<br />

Morphology<br />

Ophiosphaerella was introduced by Spegazzini (1909)<br />

who described and illustrated a single new species, O.<br />

graminicola, and thus the genus was validly published<br />

(Walker 1980, p. 70). After checking the type specimen,<br />

Petrak and Sydow (1936) transferred the generic type to<br />

Ophiobolus graminicolus (Speg.) Petrak & Syd, and<br />

assigned Ophiosphaerella as a synonym of Ophiobolus.<br />

This was followed by von Arx and Müller (1975).<br />

Ophiosphaerella differs from Phaeosphaeria by its scolecospores<br />

without swollen cells or appendages, and from<br />

Ophiobolus by its ascospores without swollen cells or<br />

separating into partspores, thus was kept as a separating<br />

genus (Eriksson 1967a; Walker 1980).<br />

Phylogenetic study<br />

Ophiosphaerella forms a monophyletic group as a sister<br />

group of Phaeosphaeria located in Phaeosphaeriaceae (Schoch<br />

et al. 2006, 2009; Wetzel et al. 1999; Zhang et al. 2009a).<br />

Concluding remarks<br />

Numerous Ophiobolus species are likely to belong in<br />

Ophiosphaerella. The two genera are distinguished as<br />

Ophiobolus sensu Shoemaker (1976) has swollen central<br />

cells or breaking into partspores or with long spirally<br />

coiled ascospores, and Ophiosphaerella (sensu Walker

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