mangrovei

Rimora Kohlm., Volkm.–Kohlm., Suetrong, Sakay. & E.B.G. Jones, Studies in Mycology 64: 166 (2009)

Type species:

Rimora mangrovei (Kohlm. & Vittal) Kohlm., Volkm.–Kohlm., Suetrong, Sakayaroj & E.B.G. Jones, 2009. Studies in Mycology, 64: 167.

≡Lophiostoma mangrovei Kohlm. & Vittal, Mycologia 78 (3): 487 (1986)

≡Lophiostoma mangrovis Kohlm. & Vittal (1986)]

≡Astrosphaeriella mangrovei (Kohlm. & Vittal) Aptroot & K.D. Hyde, Nova Hedwigia 70: 154 (2000)

Index Fungorum Number: 515959                   Faceoffungi Number: N/A

Saprobic, Sexual morph: Ascomata: 260–400 µm high, 775–950 µm wide, 450–535 µm thick, broadly oblong with flat top in frontal view, conoidal to truncate in sagittal section, elongated, laterally compressed, developing on a thin black stromatic crust, at first immersed, later erumpent by removal of the covering host tissue, opening with an elongated cleft–like ostiolum at the flattened top, epapillate, carbonaceous, black, gregarious. Peridium: 60–150 µm thick at the sides, 5–18 µm at the base, encrusted with melanin particles, thick–walled cells forming a textura angularis, cells of the host are enclosed in the lower half of the peridium. Ostioles: 10–60 µm wide, ostiolar canal filled with hyaline periphyses, 1.8–2.2 µm thick. Pseudoparaphyses: 2 µm in diameter, branched, merging with the periphyses. Asci:  155–218 x 13–19 µm , 8–spored, cylindrical, short pedunculate, thick–walled, fissitunicate, without apical apparatus, arising in parallel from a basal ascogenous tissue. Ascospores:  37–55 x 7–11 µm, biseriate, fusiform, 1–septate, upon germination 3–septate, constricted at the central primary septum, hyaline, surrounded by an evanescent gelatinous sheath. Asexual morph: Undetermined.

Key references:

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

Hyde KD, Aptroot A, Fröhlich J, Taylor JE (2000). Fungi from palms. XLIII. Lophiostoma and Astrosphaeriella species with slit-like ostioles. Nova Hedwigia. 70:143–160.

Hyde KD, Jones EBG, Ariyawansha H, Liu JK, Binder M, Jayawardene N, Boehm E, Boonmee S et al. (2013). Families of Dothideomycetes. Fungal Diversity 63: 1–313.

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, Vittal BPR (1986). Lophiostoma mangrovis, a new. marine ascomycete from the tropics. Mycologia. 78(3):489–492.

Suetrong S, Schoch CL, Spatafora JW, Kohlmeyer J, Volkmann–Kohlmeyer B, Sakayaroj J, Phongpaichit S, Tanaka K, Hirayama K, Jones EBG (2009). Molecular systematics of the marine Dothideomycetes. Studies in Mycology. 64:145–154.