Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW
Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW
Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW
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Fungal Diversity<br />
401, nor did Webster & Lucas in the taxonomic and<br />
life-history study (Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. 42, 332–<br />
342. 1959) of this species.<br />
The specimen has most of the features described by<br />
Webster & Lucas including the presence of the<br />
conidial state Microdiplodia henningsii Staritz. I did<br />
not see vertical septa in the ascospores. Webster &<br />
Lucas note that vertical septa may be occasionally be<br />
lacking. The fungus is otherwise as they describe it<br />
although some perithecia collapse and appear cupulate.”—by<br />
R.A. Shoemaker.<br />
Phylogenetic study<br />
None.<br />
Concluding remarks<br />
The substrate of Chaetoplea sensu Barr (1990b) can<br />
be herbaceous stalks, decorticated wood or periderm, or<br />
old cotton cloth and string, which may indicate its<br />
heterogeneous nature. The ascospores seem very much<br />
like Phaeosphaeria which may be an earlier name; more<br />
details concerning the ascomatal, peridial and hamathecial<br />
structures are needed to make any conclusion.<br />
Cilioplea Munk, Dansk botanisk Arkiv 15: 113 (1953).<br />
(<strong>Pleosporales</strong>, genera incertae sedis)<br />
Generic description<br />
Habitat terrestrial, saprobic. Ascomata small- to medium-sized,<br />
solitary, scattered or in small groups, immersed, globose or<br />
subglobose, papilla covered with short and blackish setae,<br />
coriaceous. Peridium thin, comprising small heavily pigmented<br />
thick-walled cells of textura angularis. Hamathecium<br />
of cellular pseudoparaphyses. Asci 8-spored, bitunicate,<br />
fissitunicate, broadly clavate, with a short, furcate pedicel, and<br />
small ocular chamber. Ascospores fusoid to narrowly fusoid<br />
with narrowly rounded ends, pale brown to reddish brown,<br />
multi-transverse septa, usually with one longitudinal septum in<br />
some central cells, constricted at the primary septum.<br />
Anamorphs reported for genus: none.<br />
Literature: Barr 1990b, 1992b; Crivelli 1983; Lumbsch<br />
and Huhndorf 2007; Müller 1951; Munk 1953, 1957.<br />
Type species<br />
Cilioplea coronata (Niessl) Munk, Dansk botanisk Arkiv<br />
15: 113 (1953). (Fig. 23)<br />
≡ Pleospora coronata Niessl, Notiz. Pyr.: 16 (1876).<br />
Ascomata 170–290 μm high×200–410 μm diam., solitary,<br />
scattered, or in small groups, immersed, globose or subglobose,<br />
wall black, papilla raised, 50–80 μm high, with short<br />
and blackish setae, coriaceous (Fig. 23a). Peridium 9–15 μm<br />
thick laterally, up to 28 μm thick at the apex, thinner at the<br />
base, 1-layered, composed of small heavily pigmented thickwalled<br />
cells of textura angularis, cells up to 4×2.5 μm diam.,<br />
cell wall 2–3 μm thick, apex cells smaller and walls thicker<br />
(Fig. 23b). Hamathecium of long cellular pseudoparaphyses,<br />
2–3 μm broad. Asci (60-)80–108×10–15 μm<br />
(x ¼ 85:3 12:1mm, n=10), 8-spored, bitunicate, fissitunicate,<br />
broadly clavate, with a short, thick, furcate pedicel, 5–<br />
15 μm long, and a small ocular chamber (to 3 μm wide×<br />
2 μm high) (Fig. 23c and d). Ascospores 21–27.5×5.5–<br />
7.5 μm (x ¼ 24 6:7mm, n=10), biseriate to uniseriate at<br />
base, fusoid to narrowly fusoid with narrowly rounded ends,<br />
pale reddish brown, 5–7 transverse septa (mostly 5), usually<br />
with one longitudinal septum in some central cells, deeply<br />
constricted at the median septum, the part above the primary<br />
septum shorter and broader, smooth-walled.<br />
Anamorph: none reported.<br />
Material examined: GERMANY, Hadiberg. on Reseda<br />
lutea Hadiberg, 20 Sept. 1875, Niessl (M 175-89-290,<br />
lectotype; M 175-89-291, type).<br />
Notes<br />
Morphology<br />
Cilioplea was introduced by Müller (1951) as a<br />
subgenus of Pleospora, and this was followed by Munk<br />
(1957), who had earlier proposed it as a separate genus<br />
typified by C. coronata based on its hairy papilla, clavate<br />
asci as well as its “perfectly paraphysoid” (see Munk<br />
1953). A relatively narrow concept of Pleospora was<br />
accepted by Crivelli (1983), and four species was<br />
assigned under the separate genus Cilioplea, viz. C.<br />
coronata, C. genisticola (Fautrey & Lambotte) Crivelli,<br />
C. kansensis (Ellis & Everh.) Crivelli and C. nivalis<br />
(Niessl) Crivelli. Subsequently, another six species were<br />
added (Barr 1990b, 1992b). Currently, ten species are<br />
included under Cilioplea.<br />
Phylogenetic study<br />
None.<br />
Concluding remarks<br />
The most striking character of Cilioplea is its setose<br />
papilla, which has been shown to have no phylogenetic<br />
significance in Lentitheciaceae (Zhang et al. 2009a).<br />
Cilioplea was assigned under Lophiostomataceae (Lumbsch<br />
and Huhndorf 2007), but there is little morphological<br />
similarity with the Lophiostomataceae sensu stricto (Zhang<br />
et al. 2009a). Thus its familial placement needs further study.<br />
Crivellia Shoemaker & Inderb., in Inderbitzin, Shoemaker,<br />
O’Neill, Turgeon & Berbee, Can. J. Bot. 84: 1308 (2006).<br />
(Pleosporaceae)