Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW

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long to elongated oblong, hyaline, 1-celled, usually slightly
curved (Fig. 105c,d and e).
Anamorph: none reported.
Material examined: JAPAN, Province Ugo. on moribund
culm of Sasa kurilensis, 4 Aug. 1957, coll. H. Muroi,
Det. I. Hino & K. Katumoto (TNS-F-230252, isotype).
Notes
Morphology
Muroia was introduced based on M. nipponica, which is a
parasite on the lower part of Sasa kurilensis (Hino and
Katumoto 1958). Muroia is characterized by its 1-celled
ascospores. Considering the perithecial structure and linear
ostiole, it was assigned to the Lophiostomataceae, and was
regarded as closely related to the amerosporous Lophiella
(Hino and Katumoto 1958).
Phylogenetic study
None.
Concluding remarks
The linear ascostroma and 1-celled, hyaline ascospores
make it less likely to fit the concept of Lophiostomataceae.
Because of the condition of the specimen, its bitunicate
nature could not be confirmed.
Genera not studied
Aglaospora De Not., G. bot. ital. 2: 43 (1844).
Type species: Aglaospora profusa (Fr.) De Not., G. bot.
ital. 2: 43 (1844).
Aglaospora, which was introduced by de Notaris
(1844), has 35 species epithets (http://www.mycobank.
org/mycotaxo.aspx) and was considered to be a synonym
of Massaria (Voglmayr and Jaklitsch 2011) orseparate
(Barr 1990a). In a recent phylogenetic study, Voglmayr and
Jaklitsch (2011) confirmed that Aglaospora is a synonym of
Massaria and is treated as such here. The immersed
ascomata with short beaks, together with ascostroma under
pseudostromatic tissues, cylindrical asci with a large and
refractive apical ring, trabeculate pseudoparaphyses within a
gel matrix, and distoseptate ascospores, are all similar to
species of Massaria. The large and conspicuous apical ring
of the ascus of Aglaospora has the appearance of being
unitunicate, and thus Shoemaker and Kokko (1977) treatedit
as a unitunicate taxon. Currently, its bitunicate status is
widely accepted.
Allewia E.G. Simmons, Mycotaxon 38: 260 (1990).
Type species: Allewia proteae E.G. Simmons, Mycotaxon
38: 262 (1990).
Allewia was introduced by Simmons (1990) toaccommodate
Lewia-like species but with Embellisia anamorphs.
Embellisia differs from other similar genera by a combination
of characters including the percentage of dictyoconidia,
shape of conidia, thickness of septa, umbilicate sites of
conidiophore geniculation, proliferating chlamydospores and
hyphal coils in culture (Simmons 1971). Based on multigene
phylogenetic analysis, A. eureka, which is closely related to
A. proteae, clustered together with species of Alternaria.
Thus, Allewia should be treated as a synonym of Lewia.
Anteaglonium Mugambi & Huhndorf, System. Biodivers.
7: 460 (2009).
Type species: Anteaglonium abbreviatum (Schwein.)
Mugambi & Huhndorf, System. Biodivers. 7: 460 (2009).
≡ Hysterium abbreviatum Schwein., Trans. Am. phil.
Soc., New Series 4: no. 2094 (1832).
Anteaglonium was introduced to accommodate a monophyletic
hysterothecial clade within Pleosporales, and four
species (A. abbreviatum, A. globosum Mugambi & Huhndorf,
A. parvulum (W.R. Gerard) Mugambi & Huhndorf
and A. latirostrum Mugambi & Huhndorf) are included
(Mugambi and Huhndorf 2009a). Anteaglonium is characterized
by erumpent to superficial, globose to subglobose or
elongate, fusoid to oblong ascomata, which are brown to
shiny black, opening by a pronounced or indistinct
longitudinal slit running entire length of fruit body or apex
raised and laterally compressed; asci cylindrical with short
pedicel, 8-spored, uniseriate or biseriate; ascospores fusoid
to oblong, septate, constricted at the primary septum,
hyaline or pigmented. A phylogenetic analysis based on
DNA comparisons indicated that Anteaglonium resides as a
separate clade but related to Tetraplosphaeria, Lophiotrema
and other species without clear resolution. Therefore, the
familial placement of Anteaglonium remains unclear
(Mugambi and Huhndorf 2009a).
Arthopyrenia A. Massal., Ric. auton. lich. crost. (Verona):
165 (1852).
Type species: Arthopyrenia rhyponta (Ach.) A. Massal.,
Ric. auton. lich. crost. (Verona): 166, fig. 329 (1852).
≡ Verrucaria rhyponta Ach., K. Vetensk-Acad. Nya
Handl.: 150 (1809).
Arthopyrenia is a lichen genus with a Trentepohlia
photobiont and is characterized by dimidiate perithecoid
ascomata, which are scattered to irregularly confluent, and
have an upper thick clypeate wall composed of periderm
cells intermixed with dark hyphae. The pseudoparaphyses are
branched and asci are obpyriform, obclavate to subcylindrical
and 8-spored. Ascospores are oblong, ovoid, slipper-shaped,
1-3-septate, hyaline and smooth-walled (Coppins 1988;