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Byssothecium circinans

Byssothecium circinans Fuckel
Index Fungorum number: IF 165669; Facesoffungi number: FoF 06226

 

Saprobic or parasitic on Medicaginis sativae. Sexual morph: Ascomata pseudothecioid 250–350 μm high, 200–300 μm diam. ( = 256.3 × 260.2 μm, n = 10), solitary, scattered, or in groups, immersed, semi-immersed to erumpent, globose to subglobose, black, apex with a short papilla. Peridium 16–40 μm wide, coriaceous, consisting of thick-walled, brown cells of textura angularis. Hamathecium 2–5 μm wide comprises pseudoparaphyses, embedded in mucilage, branching, septate and anastomosing between and above the asci. Asci 54–69 × 8–13 μm ( = 61.3 × 11.3 μm, n = 10), 8-spored, bitunicate, fissitunicate, cylindro-clavate, slightly curved when immature, pedicellate. Ascospores 35–44 × 12–16 μm ( = 41.2 × 14.5 μm, n = 10), uni- to bi-seriate, fusiform, hyaline when immature, dark brown at maturity, trans-septate and variously ornamented. Asexual morph: Undetermined. (Descriptions from Pem et al. 2019)

 

Material examined: GERMANY, Europe, F. rhen. 730c, on Medicago sativa (Fabaceae), Fuckel, (B70 0014084, isotype); Fungi rhenani 730 (G-K 18364); Herbier Boissier 339 (G-K 18366); F. sel, exs. 259, on Medicago sativa (Fabaceae) (G-K 18367). q

 

Fig 1. Byssothecium circinans (Material examined: GERMANY, Sabine, M. Huhndorf, 10 December 1993, G-K 18367). a, b Ascomata on the host surface c Section of ascoma. d Peridium. e Pseudoparaphyses fi Bitunicate asci. j−l Ascospores. Scale bars: b = 200 µm, c = 100 µm, d = 30 µm, e = 5 µm, fh = 40 µm, il = 15 µm (Photo grabbed from Pem et al. 2019, Dong et al. 2020)

 

References

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

Pem D, Jeewon R, Bhat DJ, Doilom M, Boonmee S, Hongsanan S, Promputtha I, Xu JC, Hyde KD (2019b) Mycosphere notes 275–324: a morpho-taxonomic revision and typification of obscure Dothideomycetes genera (incertae sedis). Mycosphere 10:1115–1246

 

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