Resolving Tiarosporella spp. allied to Botryosphaeriaceae and Phacidiaceae
Author
Crous, Pedro W.
CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Uppsalalaan 8, 3584 CT Utrecht, The Netherlands; & Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa & Microbiology, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
Author
Müller, Michael M.
Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE), P. O. Box 18, FIN- 01301 Vantaa, Finland
Author
Sánchez, Romina M.
Centro de Recursos Naturales Renovables de la Zona Semiárida-Universidad Nacional del Sur Camino La Carrindanga Km 7, B 8000 FWB, Bahía Blanca, Argentina
Author
Giordano, Lucrecia
Centro de Recursos Naturales Renovables de la Zona Semiárida-Universidad Nacional del Sur Camino La Carrindanga Km 7, B 8000 FWB, Bahía Blanca, Argentina
Author
Bianchinotti, M. Virginia
Centro de Recursos Naturales Renovables de la Zona Semiárida-Universidad Nacional del Sur Camino La Carrindanga Km 7, B 8000 FWB, Bahía Blanca, Argentina
Author
Anderson, Freda E.
Centro de Recursos Naturales Renovables de la Zona Semiárida-Universidad Nacional del Sur Camino La Carrindanga Km 7, B 8000 FWB, Bahía Blanca, Argentina
Author
Groenewald, Johannes Z.
CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Uppsalalaan 8, 3584 CT Utrecht, The Netherlands;
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Phytotaxa
2015
2015-03-12
202
2
73
93
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.202.2.1
journal article
10.11646/phytotaxa.202.2.1
1179-3163
13641335
Marasasiomyces
Crous
,
gen. nov.
MycoBank MB811252
Etymology:—
Named after Walter Friedrich Otto Marasas, who collected this fungus in the Karoo,
South Africa
.
Distinguished from
Tiarosporella
by having conidiomata with long necks, covered in brown setae, and having holoblastic conidiogenesis. Similar to
Eutiarosporella
, but conidiomata not in clusters.
Conidiomata
pycnidial, dark brown to black, rostrate with elongated necks, covered in brown, simple, septate, smooth to verruculose setae.
Conidiophores
reduced to conidiogenous cells.
Conidiogenous cells
lining the inner cavity, holoblastic, determinate, cylindrical, hyaline, smooth.
Conidia
solitary, hyaline, smooth, thin-walled, straight, fusiform, apex obtuse, base truncate, with a cone-like mucoid apical appendage.
Type
species:—
Marasasiomyces karoo
(B. Sutton & Marasas) Crous