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Comminutispora agavacearum

Comminutispora agavacearum A.W. Ramaley [as 'agavaciensis'], Mycologia 88(1): 133 (1996).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 414805; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11100,    Fig. 1

Description: see Monkai et al. (2013).

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

Fig. 1 Comminutispora agavacearum (BPI 802958, holotype). a Appearance of ascomata on host surface. b, c Sections through ascomata. d Ostiole. e Peridium. f, g Asci with ascospores. h–j Ascospores. Scale bars: b = 100 μm, c–e = 10 μm, f, g = 20 μm, h–j = 5 μm.

Importance and distribution

Comminutispora comprises one species known on dead leaves of Dasylirion leiophyllum (Asparagaceae) in the United States (Texas).

 

References

Abdollahzadeh J, Groenewald JZ, Coetzee M, Wingfield MJ, Crous P. 2020 – Evolution of lifestyles in Capnodiales. Studies in Mycology 95, 381–414.

Crous PW, Schoch CL, Hyde KD, Wood AR et al. 2009 – Phylogenetic lineages in the Capnodiales. Studies in Mycology 64, 17–47.

Hambleton S, Tsuneda A, Currah RS. 2003 – Comparative morphology and phylogenetic placement of two microsclerotial black fungi from Sphagnum. Mycologia 95, 959–975.

Lumbsch HT, Huhndorf SM. 2010 – Outline of Ascomycota–2009. Fieldiana Life and Earth Sciences 1, 1–60.

Monkai J, Liu JK, Boonmee S, Chomnunti P et al. 2013 – Planistromellaceae (Botryosphaeriales). Cryptogamie Mycologie 34, 45–77.

Ramaley AW. 1996 – Comminutispora gen. nov and its Hyphosphora gen. nov. anamorph. Mycologia 88, 132–136.

Schoch CL, Crous PW, Groenewald JZ, Boehm EWA et al. 2009 – A class-wide phylogenetic assessment of Dothideomycetes. Studies in Mycology 64, 1–15.

 

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