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