latipes

Zopfiella G. Winter, Rabenhorst's Kryptogamen-Flora, Pilze - Ascomyceten 1(2): 56 (1884)

Type species: Zopfiella tabulata (Zopf) G. Winter, Rabenhorst's Kryptogamen-Flora, Pilze - Ascomyceten 1(2): 56 (1884)

Marine species:

Zopfiella latipes (N. Lundq.) Maloch & Cain, 1971. Can. J. Bot., 49: 876. 

Sexual morph: saprobic, Ascomata: 120-700 µm in diam., globose to subglobose, superficial or immersed, nonostiolate, coriaceous, irregularly dehiscing, dark brown, covered with hyaline to grayish- or yellowish-brown, septate, branched hairs, 1.5-4 µm in diam.; solitary. Peridium: 40-50 µm thick, semi-transparent, composed of 3 or 4 layers of irregular or angular, thin-walled cells of 5-12 µm in diam., forming a textura angularis. Paraphyses:  up to 12 µm in diam., composed of vesicular cells, early deliquescing. Asci: 80-120 x 12-18 µm, 8-spored, clavate, broadest in the middle, short pedunculate, apicallty truncate, unitunicate, deliquescing, with a simple apical ring, 2.1 µm wide; fasciculate. Ascospores: biseriate, ellipsoidal, becoming 1-septate in the lower third; slightly constricted at the septum; larger upper cell 16-22(-25) x 10-13(-15) µm, ellipsoidal, apex conical or abonate, base truncate, olivaceous to brown, thin-walled, smooth, with a apical germ pore, 1 µm in diam.; smaller lower cell 4-8(-9) µm long, 3.5-7 µm in diam., broadly cylindrical, apex truncate, base broadly rounded, hyaline, at maturity without cytoplasm; the base and one side of the lower cell thin-walled, collapsing, and giving it a cuplike shape; collapsed lower cell appearing triangular in lateral view. Asexual morph: Undetermined (Description: Based on Kohlmeyer & Kohlmeyer (1979)).

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.

Maria GL, Sridhar KR (2004) Fungal colonization of immersed wood in mangroves of the Southwest coast of India. Canadian Journal of Botany 82: 1409-1418.

Maria GL, Sridhar KR, Raviraja NS (2005) Antimicrobial and enzyme activity of mangrove endophytic fungi of southwest coast of India. Journal of Agricultural Technology 1(1): 67-80.

Nambiar GR, Raveendran K (2009) A Checklist of marine fungi from Kerala State, India. American-Eurasian Journal of Botany, 2(2): 57-61.

Key to marine Zopfiella species:

1. Ascospores with subapical germ pore, upper cell 16-22(-25) x 10-13(-15) µm, olivaceous to brown; basal cell 4-8(-9) x 3.5-7 mm, hyaline............................................................................................................................................................................z. latipes

1. Ascospores with apical germ pore, upper cell 14-20 x 10-14 µm, olivaceous to dark brown, basal cell up to 4 mm diam., hyaline........................................................................................................................................................................... Z. marina