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Neodeightonia subglobosa

Neodeightonia subglobosa C. Booth, in Punithalingam, Mycol. Pap. 119: 19 (1970) [1969].

           Index Fungorum number: IF 318601; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11891, Fig. 1

Description: see Phillips et al. (2013).

Material considered: see Phillips et al. (2013).

Fig. 1 Neodeightonia subglobosa (MFLU 11−019, holotype). a Ascostromata on host substrate. b Section through ascostroma. c Section through peridium. d Pseudo paraphyses. e, f Asci. g−j Ascospores. Scale bars: a = 500 μm, b = 100 μm, c, m = 20 μm, d−f = 50 μm, g−j, n, o = 10 μm, l = 200 μm, p, q = 5 μm.

Importance and distribution

Neodeightonia comprises eight species known on six host plants in Acoraceae, Arecaceae, Lecythidaceae, Poaceae. Neodeightonia ramulicola has been transferred to Dothidotthia. Neodeightonia is reported from Africa (Sierra Leone), Asia (Thailand), Europe (Spain) and South America (Brazil).

 

References

Crous PW, Slippers B, Wingfield MJ, Rheeder J et al. 2006 – Phylogenetic lineages in the Botryosphaeriaceae. Studies in Mycology 55, 235–253.

Phillips AJ, Alves A, Abdollahzadeh J, Slippers B, Wingfield MJ, Groenewald JZ, Crous PW. 2013 – The Botryosphaeriaceae: genera and species known from culture. Studies in Mycology 76, 51–167.

Phillips AJL, Alves A, Pennycook SR, Johnston PR, Ramaley A, Akulov A, Crous PW. 2008 – Resolving the phylogenetic and taxonomic status of dark-spored teleomorph genera in the Botryosphaeriaceae. Persoonia 21, 29–55.

Punithalingam E. 1969 – Studies on Sphaeropsidales in culture. Mycological Papers 119, 1–24.

von Arx JA, Müller E. 1975 – A re-evaluation of the bitunicate Ascomycetes with keys to families and genera. Studies in Mycology 9, 1–159.

 

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