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Ascominuta lignicola

Ascominuta lignicola Ranghoo & K.D. Hyde, Mycoscience 41(1): 1 (2000).

            Index Fungorum number: IF 464377; Facesoffungi number: FoF 12133, Fig. 1

Description: see Ranghoo and Hyde (2000).

Material considered: see Ranghoo and Hyde (2000).

Fig. 1 Ascominuta lignicola (HKUM 5246, holotype). a Appearance of ascomata on host surface. b Section through ascomata. c Squash mount of ascus. d–f Ascospores. g, h Scanning electron micrographs of ascospores. Scale bars: b = 100 μm, c = 20 μm, d–f = 10 μm, g, h = 5 μm.

Importance and distribution

Ascominuta comprises only one species known on wood submerged in fresh water in Asia (Hong Kong).

 

References

Aptroot A. 1998 – A world revision of Massarina (Ascomycota). Nova Hedwig 66, 89–162.

Hyde KD, Aptroot A. 1998 – Tropical freshwater species of the genera Massarina and Lophiostoma (ascomycetes). Nova Hedwigia 67, 489–502.

Ranghoo VM, Hyde KD. 2000 – Ascominuta lignicola, a new loculoascomycete from submerged wood in Hong Kong. Mycoscience 41, 1–5.

Shoemaker RA, Babcock CE. 1987 – Wettsteinina. Canadian Journal of Botany 65, 375–405.

 

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