Trailia
ascophylli
G.K. Sutherl., Transactions of the British Mycological Society 5: 149 (1915)
Sordariomycetes, Subclass Hypocreomycetidae
Microascales
Halosphaeriaceae
Trailia G.K. Sutherl., Transactions of the British Mycological Society 5: 149 (1915)
Type and marine species:
Trailia ascophylli G.K. Sutherl., Transactions of the British Mycological Society 5: 149 (1915)
Index Fungorum Number:227271 Faceoffungi Number:N/A
Parasitic on marine brown seaweeds, sexual morph: Mycelium localised, hyaline, septate. Perithecia grouped irregularly in blackened regions of thallus, spherical or club-shaped, 50-60 (-159) µm. in diam., with long narrow straight or bent cylindrical beak (140-) 300-450 x 7.5-10.5 (-19) µm. Perithecial wall thin, soft, and white. Paraphyses absent. Asci cylindrical and curved, unitunicate, thin-walled, 8-spored, 45-50 (-55) x 9-10 9-12) µm, without apical apparatus. Paraphyses absent. Ascospores filamentous, tapering from 90-110 µm long, 3-4 µm at broad end to 1 µm at narrow end, hyaline, 3-4- septate, twice the length of ascus and, consequently, bent double and coiled.
Description after Sutherland 1915, Kohlmeyer & Kohlmeyer 1979.
Key references:
Kohlmeyer J, Kohlmeyer E (1979). Marine mycology. The higher fungi. Academic Press, New York, 690 p.
Sutherland GK (1914). New marine pyrenomycetes. Transactions of the British Mycological Society, 5: 147–155.
Webber FC (1959). Marine fungi. PhD Theses, University of Wales.
Wijayawardene NN, Hyde KD, Rajeshkumar KC, Hawksowrth DL, Madrid H et al. (2017). Notes for genera: Ascomycota. Fungal Diversity 86: 1–594.
Wilson IM (1951). Notes on marine fungi on wood. Transactions of the British Mycological Society,34: 540–543.