Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW
Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW
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