Fungalpedia – Note 973, Fuscostagonospora
Fuscostagonospora. Kaz. Tanaka & K. Hiray.
Citation when using this data: de Silva NI et al. 2022 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank., Fig 1
Classification: Fuscostagonosporaceae, Pleosporales, Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Fuscostagonospora has four species, viz. Fuscostagonospora banksiae, F. camporesii,
F. cytisi and F. sasae (Index Fungorum 2022). This genus was initially introduced by Tanaka et al. (2015), to accommodate a bambusicolous taxon, F. sasae. In this study, we introduce another species, F. magnoliae from Thailand.
Type species: Fuscostagonospora sasae Kaz. Tanaka & K. Hiray., in Tanaka, Hirayama, Yonezawa, Sato, Toriyabe, Kudo, Hashimoto, Matsumura, Harada, Kurihara, Shirouzu & Hosoya, Stud. Mycol. 82: 125 (2015).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Fuscostagonospora.
Figure 1 – Fuscostagonospora magnoliae (MFLU 21-0218, holotype). a The specimen. b, c Appearance of ascomata on substrate. d, e Vertical sections through ascomata. f Peridium. g Pseudoparaphyses. h–j Asci. k–n Ascospores. Scale bars: a = 500 μm, b, c = 200 μm, d, e = 50 μm, f = 10 μm, g = 5 μm, h–j = 20 μm k–n = 5 μm.
References
Index Fungorum 2022 – http://www.indexfungorum.org/names/Names.asp (Accessed on January 30, 2022).
Entry by
Nimali Indeewari de Silva, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Research Center of Microbial Diversity and Sustainable Utilization, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.
Published online 18 November 2022