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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

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