Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW
Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW
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Fungal Diversity<br />
segment, enclosed in a sheath with 4–5 apical extensions<br />
(Inderbitzin et al. 2002). Decorospora gaudefroyi is an<br />
obligate marine fungus, growing at or above the high water<br />
mark (Inderbitzin et al. 2002).<br />
Diadema Shoemaker & C.E. Babc., Can. J. Bot. 67: 1349<br />
(1989).<br />
Type species: Diadema tetramerum Shoemaker & C.E.<br />
Babc. [as ‘tetramera’], Can. J. Bot. 67: 1354 (1989).<br />
During their study of Leptosphaeria and Phaeosphaeria,<br />
Shoemaker and Babcock (1989c) found some alpine fungi<br />
with typical pleosporalean characters (such as perithecoid<br />
ascomata, bitunicate asci and presence of pseudoparaphyses)<br />
having relatively large, very dark brown ascospores, mostly<br />
with a peculiar disc-like opening (as reported in some<br />
species of Wettsteinina, Shoemaker and Babcock 1987).<br />
Thus, they introduced a new genus Diadema (typified by D.<br />
tetramerum) to accommodate them (Shoemaker and<br />
Babcock 1989c). Currently, Diadema is assigned to Diademaceae,<br />
and differs from other genera in the family in having<br />
ascospores which lack longitudinal septa (Shoemaker and<br />
Babcock 1992). The large, dark brown ascospores and the<br />
disc-like opening, however, may be an adaptation to<br />
environmental factors.<br />
Diademosa Shoemaker & C.E. Babc., Can. J. Bot. 70: 1641<br />
(1992).<br />
Type species: Diademosa californiana (M.E. Barr) Shoemaker<br />
& C.E. Babc. [as ‘californianum’], Can. J. Bot. 70: 1641 (1992).<br />
≡ Graphyllium californianum M.E. Barr, Mem. N. Y.<br />
bot. Gdn 62: 40 (1990).<br />
Diademosa is the only genus in Diademaceae that has<br />
terete (cylindrical, circular in cross section) ascospores<br />
(Shoemaker and Babcock 1992).<br />
Didymella Sacc., Michelia 2(no. 6): 57 (1880).<br />
Type species: Didymella exigua (Niessl) Sacc., Syll. fung.<br />
(Abellini) 1: 553 (1882).<br />
≡ Didymosphaeria exigua Niessl, Öst. bot. Z.: 165<br />
(1875).<br />
The type specimen of Didymella (D. exigua) is lost and a<br />
neotype specimen was selected by de Gruyter et al. (2009).<br />
Didymella was characterized by the immersed or erumpent,<br />
globose or flattened and ostiolate ascomata with dense, rare<br />
(or lack?) of pseudoparaphyses. Asci are cylindrical,<br />
clavate or saccate, and 8-spored. Ascospores are hyaline,<br />
1-septate (symmetrical or asymmetrical) and constricted at<br />
the septum. Didymella has been assigned under Mycosphaerellaceae,<br />
<strong>Pleosporales</strong> (Sivanesan 1984), Phaeosphaeriaceae<br />
(Barr 1979a; Silva-Hanlin and Hanlin 1999),<br />
Venturiaceae (Reddy et al. 1998) or<strong>Pleosporales</strong> genera<br />
incertae sedis (Lumbsch and Huhndorf 2007). Based on a<br />
multigene phylogenetic analysis, the Didymella clade forms<br />
a familial rank within Pleosporineae, thus the Didymellaceae<br />
was introduced (Aveskamp et al. 2010; de Gruyter et<br />
al. 2009; Zhang et al. 2009a; Plate 1). Anamorphs of<br />
Didymellaceae include Ascochyta, Ampelomyces, Boeremia,<br />
Chaetasbolisia, Dactuliochaeta, Epicoccum, Microsphaeropsis,<br />
Peyronellaea, Phoma, Piggotia, Pithoascus,<br />
Pithomyces and Stagonosporopsis (Aveskamp et al. 2010;<br />
de Gruyter et al. 2009; Hyde et al. 2011).<br />
Didymocrea Kowalski, Mycologia 57: 405 (1965).<br />
Type species: Didymocrea sadasivanii (T.K.R. Reddy)<br />
Kowalski, Mycologia 57: 405 (1965).<br />
≡ Didymosphaeria sadasivanii T.K.R. Reddy, Mycologia<br />
53: 471 (1962).<br />
Didymocrea is a monotypic genus, and was separated<br />
from Didymosphaeria based on its “unitunicate asci”,<br />
presence of pseudoparaphyses and absence of spermatia,<br />
and assigned under Hypocreales (Kowalski 1965). Following<br />
Kowalski (1965), Luttrell (1975) also studied the<br />
centrum development of Didymocrea, and concluded that it<br />
should be a true pleosporalean fungus with functionally<br />
unitunicate asci, and retained it in Didymosphaeria. After<br />
studying the type specimen of Didymocrea sadasivanii,<br />
Aptroot (1995) concluded that it should be closely related to<br />
the loculoascomycetous genus Zopfia. Rossman et al. (1999)<br />
also kept it as a unique genus in <strong>Pleosporales</strong>. Based on a<br />
multigene phylogenetic analysis, D. sadasivanii nests within<br />
Montagnulaceae (Kruys et al. 2006; Schoch et al. 2009).<br />
Dothivalsaria Petr., Sydowia 19: 283 (1966) [1965].<br />
Type species: Dothivalsaria megalospora (Auersw.) Petr.,<br />
Sydowia 19: 283 (1966) [1965].<br />
≡ Valsaria megalospora Auersw., Leipzig. Bot.<br />
Tauschver. 5. (1866).<br />
Dothivalsaria is monotypic and is represented by D.<br />
megalospora (Petrak 1965). The taxon is characterized by<br />
immersed, medium- to large-sized ascomata which usually<br />
aggregate under blackened stromatic tissues and have<br />
trabeculate pseudoparaphyses. Asci are cylindrical, while<br />
ascospores are brown, ellipsoid, and 1-septate and uniseriate<br />
in the asci (Barr 1990a). The ascostroma of D. megalospora is<br />
comparable with those of Aglaospora profusa as has been<br />
mentioned by Barr (1990a), but their relationships are unclear.<br />
Epiphegia G.H. Otth, Mitt. naturf. Ges. Bern: 104 (1870).<br />
Type species: Epiphegia alni G.H. Otth, Mitt. naturf. Ges.<br />
Bern: 104 (1870).<br />
Epiphegia was reinstated to accommodate a species<br />
which has Phragmoporthe-like ascocarps and Massarinalike<br />
asci, pseudoparaphyses and ascospores (Aptroot 1998).<br />
Ascomata are grouped within stromatic tissues, pseudoparaphyses<br />
are cellular, asci are bitunicate and ascospores are<br />
hyaline and trans-septate (Aptroot 1998).