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Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW

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Fungal Diversity<br />

Fig. 95 Wettsteinina gigantospora<br />

(from S, holotype of<br />

Massarina gigantospora). a<br />

Ascomata with protruding papilla<br />

scattered on the host surface.<br />

b Obpyriform thick-walled<br />

ascus with small apical apparatus.<br />

c Fissitunicate ascus. d<br />

Released hyaline ascospores.<br />

Note the distinct primary septum<br />

and less distinct secondary septa.<br />

e Ascospore with sheath.<br />

Scale bars: a=0.5 mm, b–d=<br />

100 μm, e=50 μm<br />

Generic description<br />

Habitat terrestrial, saprobic on wood. Ascomata nearly<br />

superficial, scattered to gregarious, globose, large, with a<br />

conspicuous compressed papilla and large slit-like ostiole.<br />

Peridium carbonaceous. Hamathecium of dense, long<br />

trabeculate pseudoparaphyses, branching and anastomosing<br />

between and among asci. Asci 8-spored, clavate, with very

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