Fungalpedia – Note 878, Atractospora
Atractospora Réblová & J. Fourn.
Citation when using this data: Dong W et al. 2021 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1
Classification: Atractosporaceae, Atractosporales, Diaporthomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Atractospora was introduced by Réblová et al. (2016) to accommodate three new species and one new combination which were transferred from Aquaticola. Atractospora differs from Aquaticola by its ascomata lying horizontally on the substrate and fusiform ascospores (Ho et al. 1999b, Tsui et al. 2003, Réblová et al. 2016). All six Atractospora species, including our new collection of A. ellipsoidea, were collected from freshwater habitats (Ho et al. 1999b, Réblová et al. 2016, Zhang et al. 2017, Luo et al. 2019).
Type species – Atractospora reticulata Réblová & J. Fourn.
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Atractospora.
Figure 1 – Atractospora ellipsoidea (MFLU 18-1182). a, b Ascomata on host substrate. c Vertical section of ascoma. d Structure of peridium. e Paraphyses. f–h Unitunicate asci. i Apical ring. j–l Ascospores. m Germinated ascospore. n, o Colony on PDA (left-front, right-reverse).
Scale bars: c = 50 μm, d, e, h, m = 20 μm, f, g, i–l = 10 μm.
References
Entry by
Wei Dong, Faculty of Agriculture and Food, Kunming University of Science & Technology, Kunming 650500, China, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Innovative Agriculture Research Center, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Center of Excellence for Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, Innovative Institute for Plant Health, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Haizhu District, Guangzhou 510225, China
Published online 15 February 2021