Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW
Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW
Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW
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Fungal Diversity<br />
Notes<br />
Morphology<br />
Barria was established by Yuan (1994) as a monotypic<br />
genus represented by B. piceae according to its “two-celled,<br />
pigmented ascospores, pseudoparenchymatous peridium and<br />
narrowly cellular pseudoparaphyses” thus differing in its<br />
combination of characters from all of the morphologically<br />
related dothideomycetous genera, such as Didymosphaeria,<br />
Didymopleella or Stegasphaeria. The taxon was considered<br />
to belong in Phaeosphaeriaceae. Ascomata and<br />
colour or shape of ascospores, however, readily distinguish<br />
it from other 1-septate Phaeosphaeriaceae genera,<br />
i.e. Didymella, Lautitia and Metameris (Yuan 1994).<br />
Barria piceae causes blight of spruce needles.<br />
Phylogenetic study<br />
None.<br />
Concluding remarks<br />
The status of Barria with its unusual verrucose ascospores<br />
and thick gel coating is uncertain. In many ways it<br />
resembles Belizeana, with its cylindrical asci, 1-septate,<br />
ellipsoid ascospores with sheath and verruculose surface<br />
(Kohlmeyer and Volkmann-Kohlmeyer 1987). However,<br />
the latter is a marine genus while Barria causes leaf blight<br />
of terrestrial Picea (Yuan 1994). The placement in<br />
Phaeosphaeriaceae seems logical based on the parasitic<br />
life style, thin and simple peridium, wide cellular pseudoparaphyses<br />
and brown ascospores. However, molecular<br />
data are needed to confirm this.<br />
Belizeana Kohlm. & Volkm.-Kohlm., Bot. Mar. 30: 195<br />
(1987). (<strong>Pleosporales</strong>, genera incertae sedis)<br />
Generic description<br />
Habitat marine, saprobic. Ascomata solitary, scattered, or<br />
in small groups, medium-sized, immersed to semiimmersed,<br />
subglobose to broadly ampulliform, black,<br />
ostiolate, carbonaceous. Peridium thin, comprising several<br />
layers of brown thin-walled cells of textura angularis.<br />
Hamathecium of dense, filliform pseudoparaphyses, rarely<br />
branched. Asci 8-spored, bitunicate, fissitunicate, broadly<br />
cylindrical to clavate, with a short pedicel and an ocular<br />
chamber. Ascospores uniseriate, broadly ellipsoidal, hyaline,<br />
turn pale brown when senescent, 1-septate, constricted<br />
at the septum, thick-walled, 2-layered, mature<br />
spores with tuberculate ornamentation between the two<br />
layers.<br />
Anamorphs reported for genus: Phoma-like (Kohlmeyer<br />
and Volkmann-Kohlmeyer 1987).<br />
Literature: Kohlmeyer and Volkmann-Kohlmeyer 1987.<br />
Type species<br />
Belizeana tuberculata Kohlm. & Volkm.-Kohlm., Bot.<br />
Mar. 30: 196 (1987). (Fig. 11)<br />
Ascomata 170–300 μm high×160–290 μm diam., solitary,<br />
scattered, or in small groups of 2–3, immersed to semiimmersed,<br />
subglobose to broadly ampulliform, carbonaceous,<br />
black, pale brown on the sides, ostiolate, epapillate or shortly<br />
papillate, ostiolar canal filled with a tissue of hyaline cells<br />
(Fig. 11a). Peridium 25–35 μm wide, comprising several<br />
layers thin-walled cells of textura angularis, which are<br />
hyaline inwardly, near the base composed of a hyaline<br />
hyphal mass producing asci, up to 20 μm thick (Fig. 11b, c<br />
and e). Hamathecium of dense, ca. 2 μm broad, filliform<br />
pseudoparaphyses, rarely branched, embedded in mucilage<br />
(Fig. 11g). Asci 145–170×20–30 μm (x ¼ 163 25mm, n=<br />
10), 8-spored, bitunicate, fissitunicate, broadly cylindrical to<br />
clavate with a short pedicel, thick-walled, with a small ocular<br />
chamber (Fig. 11d, f and h). Ascospores 21–26 × 13–18 μm<br />
(x ¼ 22 15mm, n = 10), uniseriate, broadly ellipsoidal,<br />
hyaline, turn pale brown when senescent, 1-septate, constricted<br />
at the septum, thick-walled, 2-layered, mature spores<br />
with tuberculate ornamentation between the two layers<br />
(Fig. 11i and j).<br />
Anamorph: Phoma-like (Kohlmeyer and Volkmann-<br />
Kohlmeyer 1987).<br />
Material examined: BELIZE, Twin Cays, on Laguncularia<br />
sp., 7 Apr. 1983, leg. & det. J. Kohlmeyer (Herb. J.<br />
Kohlmeyer No. 4398, holotype); AUSTRALIA, Towra<br />
Point, New South Wales, trunk of eroded tree with oysters<br />
and shipworms, intertidal zone, Botany Bay, 23 Aug. 1981<br />
(Herb. J. Kohlmeyer No. 4209, paratype).<br />
Notes<br />
Morphology<br />
Belizeana was formally established to accommodate B.<br />
tuberculata, an obligate marine fungus, which is characterized<br />
by verrucose ascospores (Kohlmeyer and Volkmann-<br />
Kohlmeyer 1987). Belizeana tuberculata canbeassignedto<br />
Pleosporaceae (<strong>Pleosporales</strong>) according to Luttrell’s (1973)<br />
treatment and keys of von Arx and Müller (1975), but cannot<br />
resolve a proper family based on Barr (1979a, 1983). The<br />
unique morphology together with obligate marine habitat<br />
makes B. tuberculata readily distinguishable from all other<br />
taxa of Pleosporaceae.<br />
Phylogenetic study<br />
None.<br />
Concluding remarks<br />
The ascospores of Belizeana tuberculata are most comparable<br />
with those of Acrocordiopsis patilii, but the superficial