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Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW

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Fungal Diversity<br />

Fig. 81 Preussia funiculata<br />

(from TRTC 46985). a Superficial<br />

cleistothecoid ascomata. b<br />

Part of peridium from front<br />

view. c Squash mounts showing<br />

a large number of asci. d A<br />

clavate ascus with a long and<br />

thin pedicel. Scale bars: a=<br />

0.5 mm, b=20 μm, c, d=50 μm<br />

300 μm, 2-layered, outer layer composed of hyphoid cells,<br />

inner layer composed of compressed cells of textura<br />

angularis (Fig. 82b). Hamathecium of dense, filamentous,<br />

trabeculate pseudoparaphyses, 0.8–1.5 μm broad, branching<br />

and anastomosing between and above asci (Fig. 82e).<br />

Asci 175–250×25–35 μm (x ¼ 220 28mm, n=10), 8-<br />

spored, bitunicate, fissitunicate, cylindro-clavate, with a<br />

short, furcate pedicel, to 20 μm long (Fig. 82c and e).<br />

Ascospores 55–73×12.5–15 μm (x ¼ 63:3 13:1mm, n=<br />

10), biseriate, broadly fusoid to fusoid, usually slightly<br />

curved, smooth, hyaline, mostly 5-septate, rarely up to 7-<br />

septate, smooth-walled, lacking a sheath.<br />

Anamorph: none reported.<br />

Material examined: BELIZE, Twin Cays, on attached<br />

dead tip of prop root of Rhizophora mangle, with shipworms,<br />

3 Apr. 1983, leg. & det. J.K. Kohlmeyer (J.<br />

Kohlmeyer No. 4365a, holotype).<br />

Notes<br />

Morphology<br />

Quintaria was introduced to accommodate the marine<br />

fungus, Trematosphaeria lignatilis, based on its immersed<br />

ascomata with rounded bases, black incrustations surrounding<br />

the sides of the ostiolar canal as well as its hyaline<br />

ascospores (Kohlmeyer and Volkmann-Kohlmeyer 1991).<br />

Subsequently, three more species were introduced to this<br />

genus, viz. Q. aquatica K.D. Hyde & Goh, Q. microsporum<br />

Yin. Zhang, K.D. Hyde & J. Fourn. and Q. submerse K.D.<br />

Hyde & Goh, which are all from freshwater (Hyde and Goh<br />

1999; Zhang et al. 2008b).<br />

Phylogenetic study<br />

Multigene phylogenetic study indicated that Quintaria<br />

lignatilis forms a separate sister clade to other families of<br />

<strong>Pleosporales</strong>, which may represent a new familial linage<br />

(Suetrong et al. 2009). This was supported by phylogenetic<br />

studies which place the freshwater Q. submersa separate from<br />

Q. lignatilis (Schoch et al. 2009;Suetrongetal.2009; Plate 1).<br />

Concluding remarks<br />

The freshwater members of Quintaria should likely be<br />

excluded from this genus, and only the generic type, Q.<br />

lignatilis retained, but this needs confirmation.<br />

Roussoëlla Sacc., in Saccardo & Paoletti, Atti Inst. Veneto<br />

Sci. lett., ed Arti, Sér. 3 6: 410 (1888). (Arthopyreniaceae<br />

(or Massariaceae))

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