Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW
Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW
Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW
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Fungal Diversity<br />
Fig. 13 Bicrouania maritima<br />
(from IMI 330806, isotype). a<br />
Section of an ascoma. b Section<br />
of papilla. Note the periphyses.<br />
c–e Eight-spored asci. Note the<br />
furcated pedicel. Scale bars: a,<br />
b=100 μm, c–e=20 μm<br />
Generic description<br />
Habitat terrestrial, saprobic. Ascomata solitary, superficial,<br />
globose, dark brown, epapillate, ostiolate. Peridium thin,<br />
pseudoparenchymatous. Hamathecium of few, cellular<br />
pseudoparaphyses, embedded in mucilage, rarely anastomosing<br />
and branching. Asci bitunicate, fissitunicate, broadly<br />
clavate with short pedicels, 2-3-spored. Ascospores muriform,<br />
broadly ellipsoid, dark brown with subhyaline end<br />
cells, verrucose.<br />
Anamorphs reported for genus: none.<br />
Literature: Barr 1987b; Hawksworth et al. 1979;<br />
Lumbsch and Huhndorf 2007.<br />
Type species<br />
Bimuria novae-zelandiae Hawksworth, Chea & Sheridan,<br />
N. Z. J. Bot. 17: 268 (1979). (Fig. 14)<br />
Ascomata (185-)200×310(-330) μm diam., solitary, scattered,<br />
semi-immersed or superficial, globose, hyaline when