Fungalpedia – Note 1583, Myxothyrium
Myxothyrium Bubák & Kabát
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1
Classification: Incertae sedis, Incertae sedis, Incertae sedis, Incertae sedis, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Saprobic on dead leaves of Vaccinium vitis-idaea (Ericaceae). Sexual morph: undetermined. Asexual morph: Conidiomata dark brown, stromatic, pycnidial, hypophyllous, solitary to gregarious or confluent, epidermal to subepidermal, immersed, subglobose, unilocular or multi-locular, glabrous. Ostiole absent, dehiscence by irregular split of apical wall. Conidiomatal wall composed of thick-walled, dark brown cells of textura angularis. Conidiophores reduced to conidiogenous cells. Conidiogenous cells arising from the inner wall layer of conidiomata, hyaline, enteroblastic, phialidic, doliiform to ampulliform, determinate, smooth-walled. Conidia hyaline, cylindrical to fusiform, with obtuse ends, straight, unicellular, smooth-walled, with several large guttules (adapted from Sutton 1980).
Notes: Sutton (1980) re-described Myxothyrium and accepted a single species. The second species M. camelliarum was added by Zhao and Zhao (2012), but this has not been re-examined. Wijayawardene et al. (2017b) accepted only the type species in the genus. Myxothyrium can be confused with Phoma in form of conidiomata, conidiogenous cells and conidia, and it may be taxonomically congeneric with Phoma. Sequence data is not available for Myxothyrium and fresh collections are needed to verify the relationship between Myxothyrium and Phoma.
Type species: Myxothyrium leptideum (Fr.) Bubák & Kabát, Svensk bot. Tidskr. 9: 379 (1915).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Myxothyrium.
Figure 1 – Mxothyrium leptideum (redrawn from Sutton 1980) a Vertical section of conidioma. b Conidiogenous cells and developing conidia. c Conidia.
References
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