Mangrovispora
pemphii
K.D. Hyde & Nakagiri, Syst. Ascom., Reprint of Volumes 1-4
Sordariomycetes
Phyllachorales incertae sedis
Mangrovispora K.D. Hyde & Nakagiri, Syst. Ascom., Reprint of Volumes 1-4 (1982-1985)
10(1): 19 (1991)
Type species:
Mangrovispora pemphii K.D. Hyde & Nakagiri, Syst. Ascom., Reprint of Volumes 1-4
(1982-1985) 10(1): 20 (1991)
Sexual morph: saprobic, ascomata 200-400 µm long x 140-220 µm diam., hyaline or subhyaline, immersed, subglobose to ellipsoidal, axis, horizontal to host surface, ostiolate, papillate, neck bending at 90 °C to protrude through the substratum, membranous, immersed beneath a thin dark stroma, solitary or gregarious. Neck hyaline to light brown, periphysate, hairy. Peridium thin, hyaline composed of thick-walled compressed cells towards the inside, and very thick-walled small cells towards the outside. Hamathecium composed of branching hyphae, which are persistent, numerous, branched, septate and composed of 2-3 µm thick cells and in a gel. Asci 190-300 x 15-23 µm, 8-spored, fissitunicate dehiscence not observed, pedunculate, thin-walled, with a faint apical tube and apical thickening (stain with erythrosin), not amyloid, cylindrical, developing from a cushion of tissue at the base of the ascoma. Ascospores 25-39 x 12-14 µm, uniseriate, ellipsoid to fusiform, hyaline, 3-septate, constricted slightly at the septa, guttulate or not, thin-walled, surrounded by a sheath-like structure. Asexual morph: Undetermined (Description based on Hyde (1991)).
Key references:
Hyde KD (1991) Mangrovispora pemphii gen. et sp. nov., a new marine fungus from Pemphis acidula. Systema Ascomycetum. 10(1):19-25.
Jones EBG, Suetrong S, Sakayaroj J, Bahkali AH, Abdel-Wahab MA, Boekhout T, Pang KL (2015) Classification of marine Ascomycota, Basidiomycota, Blastocladiomycota and Chytridiomycota. Fungal Diversity 73: 1-72.
Yanna, Ho WH, McKenzie EHC, Hyde KD (2004) New saprobic fungi on palm fronds, including Brachysporiopsis gen. nov. Cryptogamie Mycologie. 25:129-135.
Maharachchikumbura SSN, Hyde KD, Jones EBG, Mckenzie EHC, Huang SK, Abdel-Wahab MA et al. (2015) Towards a natural classification and backbone tree for Sordariomycetes. Fungal Diversity 72: 199-299.