Biappendiculispora
Biappendiculispora Thambug., Kaz. Tanaka & K.D. Hyde
Index Fungorum number: IF551528
Saprobic on dead herbaceous stems or culms of Poaceae or submerged wood. Sexual morph: Ascomata solitary to gregarious, immersed, with papilla erumpent through host surface, reddish brown to black, subglobose, coriaceous, ostiolate. Ostiole variable in shape, central, with a pore-like opening, plugged by gelatinous tissue, made of hyaline, pseudoparenchymatous cells. Peridium composed of a single stratum, with several layers of cells of textura angularis, fusing with the host tissues in outer layer. Pseudoparaphyses numerous, cellular, hypha-like, hyaline, septate, branched. Asci 8-spored, bitunicate, fissitunicate, cylindric-clavate, with short, bulbous pedicel, with an ocular chamber. Ascospores uni- to bi-seriate, fusiform, with acute ends, septate, constricted at the septa, pale yellowish to brown, with hyaline appendages. Asexual morph: Undetermined. (Descriptions from Dong et al. 2020)
Type species: Biappendiculispora japonica Thambug., Wanas., Kaz. Tanaka & K.D. Hyde
Notes: The monotypic genus Biappendiculispora was introduced for B. japonica (Thambugala et al. 2015) which was initially described as Lophiostoma caulium “var. f” (Tanaka and Harada 2003). Three strains of B. japonica collected in Japan clustered in a separated clade with Lophiostoma (Thambugala et al. 2015; Bao et al. 2019; Dong et al. 2020). Bao et al. (2019) found this species from freshwater in China. (Notes from Dong et al. 2020)
List of freshwater Biappendiculispora species
Biappendiculispora japonica Thambug., Wanas., Kaz. Tanaka & K.D. Hyde, Fungal Diversity 74: 214 (2015)
Freshwater distribution: China (Bao et al. 2019)
References
Bao DF, Su HY, Maharachchikumbur SSN, Liu JK, Nalumpang S, Luo ZL, Hyde KD (2019) Lignicolous freshwater fungi from China and Thailand: Multi-gene phylogeny reveals new species and new records in Lophiostomataceae. Mycosphere 10:1080–1099
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 DM, Nalumpang S, Zhang H (2020) Freshwater Dothideomycetes. Fungal Diversity 105:319-575
Tanaka K, Harada Y (2003) Pleosporales in Japan (1): the genus Lophiostoma. Mycoscience 44:85–96
Thambugala KM, Hyde KD, Tanaka K, Tian Q et al. (2015) Towards a natural classification and backbone tree for Lophiostomataceae, Floricolaceae, and Amorosiaceae fam.nov. Fungal Diversity 74:199–266
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