Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW
Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW
Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW
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Fungal Diversity<br />
Material examined: UK, England, Norfolk, King’s<br />
Cliffe; on dead stem (in ramis emortuis) Rosa sp., Mar.<br />
1850, M.J. Berkeley (K(M): 147683, holotype).<br />
Notes<br />
Morphology<br />
Didymosphaeria is a widely distributed genus with wide<br />
host range (Aptroot 1995). Didymosphaeria was formally<br />
established by Fuckel (1870) based on six ascomycetous<br />
species, and D. epidermidis (Fries) Fuckel (or D. peltigerae<br />
Fuckel) has been chosen as the lectotype species (see<br />
comments by Aptroot 1995). Hawksworth and David<br />
(1989: 494) proposed to conserve the genus with a lectotype<br />
specimen, Fungi Rhenani 1770. The genus had been<br />
considered as a depository to accommodate all types of<br />
didymosporous pyrenocarpous ascomycetes. Many workers<br />
have tried to redefine the genus and excluded some species.<br />
Saccardo (1882) restricted the genus to brown-spored species,<br />
and about 100 species have been excluded subsequently (Barr<br />
1989a, b, 1990a, 1992a, b, 1993b; Hawksworth1985a, b;<br />
Hawksworth and Boise 1985; Hawksworth and Diederich<br />
Fig. 27 Didymosphaeria futilis<br />
(from K(M): 147683, holotype).<br />
a Two immersed ascomata on<br />
the host surface (one of them is<br />
cut horizontally). b Section of<br />
an ascoma. Note the thin peridium.<br />
c Hand cut portion of<br />
ascoma showing habitat in<br />
wood. d Asci in pseudoparaphyses.<br />
Note the trabeculate pseudonparaphyses<br />
anastomosing<br />
above the asci. e, f Four-spored<br />
asci with long pedicels which<br />
are rounded at their bases. g<br />
Brown, 1-septate ascospores<br />
with spinulose ornamentation.<br />
Scale bars: a=0.3 mm, b, c=<br />
100 μm, d–g=10 μm