Freshwater Ascomycetes - Species Monograph
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| Genus |
Species |
Author |
| Aniptodera |
fusiformis |
C.A. Shearer |
| Class |
Order |
Family |
| Sordariomycetes |
Halosphaeriales |
Halosphaeriaceae |
MycoBank ID:
136207
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Description
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| Habit: |
Superficial to partly immersed on wood; clustered or scattered. |
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| Ascomata: |
Ascomata hyaline, superficial to partly immersed, globose, ostiolate, hyaline, 75-139 µm diam. |
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| Peridium: |
Peridium membranous, thin, hyaline, of textura angularis in face view. |
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| Beak: |
Beaks conical, periphysate, 24-36 x 19-35 µm at base. |
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| Hamathecium: |
Hamathecium sparse, of chains of globose, thin-walled cells (catenophyses). |
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| Ascus: |
Asci fasciculate at base of ascoma, subglobose, unitunicate, thin-walled, containing eight ascospores, with apical pore and cytoplasm retracted below the ascus apex, deliquescent or not, 36-60 x 19-35 µm. |
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| Ascospore: |
Ascospores one-septate, hyaline, fusiform, thick walled (wall 1.5-2.0 µm thick), triangular channel in apical walls, 19-28 x 8-12 µm. |
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| Sheath: |
None present. |
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Other info
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| Type & Location: |
HOLOTYPE: USA: IL, Jordan Creek, a tributary of the Salt Fork of the Vermilion River, Vermilion County, east central Illinois, slide made from a specimen on cottonwood twigs (Populus deltoides Marsh) submerged from June 1978 to November 1980, CA Shearer, J-146-1A, NY. Isotypes: NY - slides from same material, J-146-1B-D. |
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| Substratum: |
Wood |
| Habitat: |
Lotic |
| Distribution: |
USA (IL) |
| Pertinent Literature: |
Shearer, C.A.. 1989. Aniptodera (Halosphaeriaceae) from wood in freshwater habitats. Mycologia 81: 139-146. |
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