04.07.2015 Views

Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW

Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW

Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

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)

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!