Freshwater Ascomycetes - Species Monograph
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| Genus |
Species |
Author |
| Aniptodera |
limnetica |
C.A. Shearer |
| Class |
Order |
Family |
| Sordariomycetes |
Halosphaeriales |
Halosphaeriaceae |
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Description
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| Habit: |
Superficial to partially immersed on woody debris; clustered to scattered. |
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| Ascomata: |
Ascomata superficial to partly immersed, globose to subglobose, ostiolate, hyaline, 139-208 x 129-198 µm. |
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| Peridium: |
Peridium membranous, hyaline, of textura angularis in face view. |
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| Beak: |
Beaks cylindrical, long, periphysate, 59-178 x 40-69 µm. |
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| Hamathecium: |
Chains of large, thin-walled cells (catenophyses?) |
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| Ascus: |
Asci fasciculate at base of ascoma, cylindrical to clavate, unitunicate, thin-walled, containing eight ascospores, with apical pore and cytoplasm retracted below the ascus apex, deliquescent or not, 50-70 x 12-17 µm. |
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| Ascospore: |
Ascospores one-septate, hyaline, ellipsoidal, frequently allantoid, thick walled, (wall 2-2.8 µm thick), 18-24 (x=21.9) x 8-11 (x=9.5) µm. |
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| Sheath: |
None present. |
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Other info
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| Type & Location: |
HOLOTYPE: NY - Slide made from a specimen on sycamore twigs (Platanus occidentalis L.) submerged in Jordan Creek, a tributary of the Salt Fork of the Vermilion River, Vermilion County, east central Illinois, from June 1978 to May 1980, J-143-1A. Isotypes: NY - slides of the same material, J-143-1B-F. |
| Other Specimens: |
USA: Illinois, Union Co., Wolf Lake, March 19, 1974, from submerged wood, CA Shearer, CS539-2; same location, August 6, 1974, CS 539-1. |
| Substratum: |
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| Habitat: |
lentic, lotic |
| Distribution: |
USA (IL, WI) |
| Pertinent Literature: |
Shearer, C.A. 1989. Aniptodera (Halosphaeriaceae) from wood in freshwater habitats. Mycologia 81: 139-146. |
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