Fungalpedia – Note 1187, Ovatospora
Ovatospora. X.Wei Wang, Samson & Crous.
Citation when using this data: Hyde KD et al. 2020 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
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Classification: Chaetomiaceae, Sordariales, Sordariomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Notes – Ovatospora was introduced by Wang et al. (2016a) to accommodate
O. brasiliensis, O. medusarum, O. mollicella, O. pseudomollicella, O. senegalensis, and O. unipora. The genus is characterised by superficial, subglobose or ovate ascomata, ostiolate, with brown walls of cells of textura angularis. Terminal hairs are usually coiled and often branched and lateral hairs are flexuous. Asci are fasciculate, cylindrical or clavate and evanescent and ascospores are brown at maturity, broadly ovate, bilaterally flattened, rounded at one end, attenuate or apiculate at other end and have an apical germ pore. No asexual morphs are known (Wang et al. 2016a).
Type species: Ovatospora brasiliensis (Bat. & Pontual) X.Wei Wang & Samson, in Wang, Houbraken, Groenewald, Meijer, Andersen, Nielsen, Crous & Samson, Stud. Mycol. 84: 207 (2016).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Ovatospora.
References
Entry by
Kevin David Hyde, Institute of Plant Health, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Haizhu District, Guangzhou 510225, P.R. China, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, Mushroom Research Foundation, 128 M.3 Ban Pa Deng T. Pa Pae, A. Mae Taeng, Chiang Mai 50150, Thailand, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China, School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, World Agroforestry Centre, East and Central Asia, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China
Published online 28 February 2020