salicorniae

Ascochyta Lib., Pl. Crypt.: 8 (1830)

Type species:

Ascochyta pisi Lib., Plantae Cryptogamae, quas in Arduenna collegit Fasc. 1: 12 (1830)

Marine species:

 Ascochyta salicorniae Magnus, 1902, Schr. Naturwiss. Ver. Schleswing-Holstein, 12: 345

≡ Stagnosporopsis salicorniae (Magnus) Diedicke, Ann. Mycol., 10: 141-142 (1912).

= Ascochyta salicorniae var. salicorniae-patulae Trotter, Ann. Mycol., 3: 30 (1905).

= Ascochyta salicorniae var. salicorniae-patulae (Trotter) Melnic, Nov. Sist. Niz. Rast., 12: 205 (1975).

= Ascochyta salicorniae Trotter, Ann. Mycol., 2: 536 (1904), nom. Illegit

= Diplodia salicorniae Japp, Verh. Bot. Ver. Prov. Brandenberg, 49: 16 (1907).

Saprobic, Asexual morph: Pycnidia: 90-180 x 90-210 µm, subglobose, ellipsoidal or pyriform, immersed, ostiolate, epapillate to papillate, coriaceous, thin-walled, brown to black, solitary or gregarious. Peridium: 8-12 µm thick, usually composed of two layers of elongate, lenticular, thick-walled cells, dark on the outside, light-coloured near the venter, forming a textura angularis. Papillae: 25-30 um high, 45-50 µm in diam., conical or cylindrical, centric or eccentric, projecting above the surface of the host. Ostioles: 20-30 µm in diam., ostiolar canal filled with mucilage and some small hyaline, periphysoid cells broken off the wall. Conidiogenous cells: phialidic, flask-shaped, hyaline, originating along the inner wall of the peridium. Conidia: 10-19 x 4-7 µm, blastic, cylindrical with rounded ends to ellipsoidal, one-septate in the middle, rarely with an additional septum in the lower or upper half, very seldom three-septate, not or slightly constricted at the septa, smooth, hyaline to yellowish or light brown, enclosed in an indistinct, irregular, mucilaginous sheath. Sexual morph: Undetermined.

Key references:

Borse BD, Bhat DJ, Borse KN, Tuwas AR, Pawar NS (2012). Marine Fungi of India. Broadway Book Centre, India. 

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.

Kohlmeyer J, Kohlmeyer E (1979). Marine Mycology. The Higher Fungi. Academic Press, New York.

Wanasinghe DN, Hyde KD, Jeewon R, Crous PW, Wijayawardene NN, Jones EBG, Bhat DJ, Phillips AJL, Groenewald JZ, Dayarathne MC, Phukhamsakda C, Thambugala KM, Bulgakov TS, Camporesi E, Gafforov Y. Mortimer PE, Karunarathna SC (2017). Phylogenetic revision of Camarosporium (Pleosporinae, Dothideomycetes) and allied genera. Studies in Mycology. 87:207–256.