Aniptosporopsis
lignatilis
(K.D. Hyde) K.L. Pang, C.L. Lu, W.T. Ju et E.B.G. Jones, Bot. Mar. (In press 2017)
Sordariomycetes, Subclass Hypocreomycetidae
Microascales
Halosphaeriaceae
Sexual morph: Ascomata 225-400 µm high, 160-350 µm diam., globose, subglobose to occasionally pyriform, hyaline to cream coloured, membranous, immersed to semi-immersed, becoming superficial, solitary or gregarious, ostiolate. Neck light coloured, periphysate. Peridium 18-23 µm thick, 3-6 layers of thick-walled elongate cells. Catenophyses present. Asci 128-171 × 28-40 µm, unitunicate, 8-spored, clavate, persistent with a flattened apex and an indistinct apical pore, plasmalemma retracted below the apex, pedicellate. Ascospores 33-55 × 12-17 µm, hyaline, fusiform, thick-walled, 1-septate, not constricted at the septum, appendaged. Appendages bipolar, initially hamate extending over the central septum, unfurling to form fine threads in water. Asexual morph undetermined.
Key references:
Hyde, KD (1992) Tropical Australian freshwater fungi. I. Some ascomycetes. Australian Systematic Botany 5: 109–116.
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.
Jones EBG, Ju WT, Lu CL, Guo SY, Pang KL (2017) The Halosphaeriaceae revisited. Botanica Marina (In press).
Pang KL, Jheng JS, Jones EBG. (2011) Marine mangrove fungi of Taiwan. National Taiwan Ocean University Press, Keelung. pp. 131.