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Fungal Diversity<br />

Fig. 84 Saccharicola bicolor<br />

(from IMI 215888, holotype). a<br />

Section of an ascomata immersed<br />

in the host tissue. b<br />

Section of a partial pycnidia.<br />

Note the phragmosporous conidia.<br />

c Clavate ascus with ocular<br />

chamber and short pedicel. d<br />

Ascospores. Note the pigmented<br />

central cell(s). Scale bars: a, b=<br />

50 μm, c=20 μm, d=10 μm<br />

dense, trabeculate pseudoparaphyses embedded in gel matrix,<br />

fissitunicate, 8-spored, cylindrical asci with short pedicel and<br />

conspicuous apical apparatus, 1-septate, dark brown ascospores<br />

with paler apical cells (Hyde 1991a). Salsuginea is<br />

considered closely related to Helicascus and Caryospora, and<br />

they are all proposed to Melanommataceae (Hyde 1991a).<br />

Phylogenetic study<br />

Based on a multigene phylogenetic analysis, Salsuginea<br />

ramicola nested in a paraphyletic clade within <strong>Pleosporales</strong>;<br />

its familial status is undetermined (Suetrong et al. 2009).<br />

Concluding remarks<br />

It has been shown that trabeculate pseudoparaphyses has<br />

no phylogenetic significance at familial rank, so a well<br />

resolved phylogeny based on DNA comparisons will be<br />

necessary to categorize this genus.<br />

Semidelitschia Cain & Luck-Allen, Mycologia 61: 581<br />

(1969). (Delitschiaceae)<br />

Generic description<br />

Habitat terrestrial, saprobic (coprophilous). Ascomata<br />

immersed to slightly erumpent, scattered, coriaceous,<br />

papillate, ostiolate. Hamathecium of non-typical trabeculate<br />

pseudoparaphyses, thin, septate, rarely branching.<br />

Asci cylindrical, pedicellate, each with a conspicuous<br />

large apical ring. Ascospores non-septate, dark brown to<br />

nearly black, each with an elongated germ slit.<br />

Anamorphs reported for genus: none.<br />

Literature: Barr 2000; Cain and Luck-Allen 1969.<br />

Type species<br />

Semidelitschia agasmatica Cain & Luck-Allen, Mycologia<br />

61: 581 (1969). (Fig. 86)<br />

Ascomata 550–900 μm diam., solitary, immersed to<br />

erumpent, globose to subglobose, black, semicoriaceous,<br />

smooth-walled, with a protruding papilla and a conspicuous<br />

ostiole (Fig. 86a). Peridium thin, comprising multi-angular

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