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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

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