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Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW

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Fungal Diversity<br />

Fig. 31 Eudarluca australis (from LPS 5.415, type). a Ascomata on<br />

the host surface. b Section of an ascoma. c Section of a partial<br />

peridium. Note the thin peridium with cells of textura angularis. d–g<br />

Asci with short pedicels. h Ascospores. Note the 2-septate hyaline<br />

ascospore. Scale bars: a, b=100 μm, c=50 μm, d–h=10 μm<br />

Falciformispora K.D. Hyde, Mycol. Res. 96: 26 (1992).<br />

(Trematosphaeriaceae)<br />

Generic description<br />

Habitat freshwater, saprobic. Ascomata small, scattered to<br />

gregarious, erumpent to nearly superficial, depressed<br />

globose to ovoid, black, ostiolate, epapillate, coriaceous.<br />

Peridium thin, comprising two cells types, outer layer<br />

composed of thick-walled cells of textura angularis, inner<br />

layer composed of hyaline compressed cells. Hamathecium<br />

long and cellular pseudoparaphyses, septate, embedded in<br />

mucilage. Asci 8-spored, bitunicate, fissitunicate, broadly<br />

clavate to fusoid, with a short, thick pedicel. Ascospores

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