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Caryospora minima

Caryospora minima Jeffers

 

For description, refer to Jeffers (1940)

 

Freshwater Distribution: China (Tsui et al. 2000; Luo et al. 2004), Philippines (Cai et al. 2003), South Africa (Hyde et al. 1998)

 

References

Cai L, Zhang KQ, McKenzie EHC, Hyde KD (2003) Freshwater fungi from bamboo and wood submerged in the Liput River in the Philippines. Fungal Divers 13:1–12

Dong W, Wang B, Hyde KD, McKenzie EHC, Raja HA, Tanaka K, Abdel-Wahab MA, Abdel-Aziz FA, Doilom M, Phookamsak R, Hongsanan S, Wanasinghe DN, Yu X-D, Wang G-N, Yang H, Yang J, Thambugala KM, Tian Q, Luo Z-L, Yang J-B, Miller AN, Fournier J, Boonmee S, Hu D-M, Nalumpang S, Zhang H (2020) Freshwater Dothideomycetes. Fungal Divers 105:319–575

Walter F. Jeffers (1940) Studies on Caryospora putaminum, Mycologia, 32(4): 550-566, DOI: 10.1080/00275514.1940.12017431

Hyde KD, Goh TK, Steinke TD (1998) Fungi on submerged wood in the Palmiet River, Durban, South Africa. S Afr J Bot 64:151–162

Luo J, Yin J, Cai L, Zhang KQ, Hyde KD (2004) Freshwater fungi in Lake Dianchi, a heavily polluted lake in Yunnan, China. Fungal Divers 16:93–112

Raja HA, Shearer CA (2008) Freshwater ascomycetes: new and noteworthy species from aquatic habitats in Florida. Mycologia 100:467–489

Tsui KM, Hyde KD, Hodgkiss IJ (2000) Biodiversity of fungi on submerged wood in Hong Kong streams. Aquat Microb Ecol 21:289–298

Figure 1. Caryospora minima (Material examined: CHINA, Hong Kong, on submerged wood in Lam Tsuen River, 1 December 1996, C. Tsui, IFRD 083-010). a. Herbarium label and specimen of Caryospora minima, b. Ascomata on host surface, c, d. Vertical section through ascoma, e. Structure of peridium, f. Pseudoparaphyses, g, h. Bitunicate asci, i. Ocular chamber, j. Ascospore, k. Ascospore in Indian Ink. Scale bars: c = 100 μm, e, g, h = 20 μm, f, j–k = 10 μm, i = 5 μm (Image from Dong et al. 2020)

 

Figure 1. Caryospora minima. A. early stage of crozier formation, X 2000, B. later stage of crozier formation, X 2000, C. ascus containing recently delimited ascospores, X 450, D. asci containing mature ascospores, X 150. (Image from Jeffers 1940)

 

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