Angustimassarina quercicola
Angustimassarina quercicola Thambugala, Jayasiri, R.K.Schumach. & K.D. Hyde, Fungal Diversity 74:199–266 (2015)
Index Fungorum number: 551281; Facesofungi number: FoF 03963
Holotype: GERMANY, on twigs of Quercus robur L. (Fagaceae), 28 December 2013, Rene K. Schumacher G013 (MFLU 14-0612, holotype); ex-type living culture, MFLUCC 14-0506, ICMP 21070.
Saprobic on dead spine of Rosa canina L. Sexual morph: Ascomata 226–262 μm high × 324–338 μm diam. (x̄ = 244 × 331 μm, n = 5), immersed to semi-immersed, globose to subglobose, solitary or scattered on the host surface, black dots on host surface, smooth-walled, without papilla, thin-walled, shiny, dark brown to black, short ostiole in the central, with a pore-like opening. Peridium 22–30 μm wide, thick-walled, inner cells hyaline, outer layer cells black, composed of flattened cells of textura angularis. Hamathecium 1.5–1.8 μm wide, comprising numerous, septate, long, hyaline, guttulate, pseudoparaphyses. Asci 77–112 × 11–15 μm (x̄ = 97 × 13 μm, n = 15), 8-spored, bitunicate, fissitunicate, cylindrical to cylindric-clavate, short with club-shaped pedicel, apically rounded with well-developed ocular chamber, smooth and thin-walled. Ascospores 20–23 × 5–8 μm (x̄ = 21 × 6 μm, n = 15), overlapping in the ascus, fusiform, 1-septate, narrowly fusoid with rounded ends, the cells above central septum often broader than the lower ones, constricted at the septum, with large guttules in each cell, hyaline, with thin mucilaginous sheath, smooth-walled. Asexual morph: Undetermined.
Culture characteristics: Colonies on MEA at 16 °C reaching 9 cm in two weeks, circular with undulate, yellow-white mycelium, velvety, and flat on the media.
Material examined: ITALY, Forlı`-Cesena Province, near Castellaccio di Corniolino, Santa Sofia, on dead spines of Rosa canina L. (Rosaceae), 24 October 2014, Erio Camporesi, IT2197 (MFLU 15-1026, new host record). ibid. (MFLU 16-0532, HKAS94609 bis); living culture, MFLUCC 15-0079).
GenBank numbers: ITS: MG828868, LSU: MG828984, SSU: MG829097.
Note: Our new isolate is morphologically similar and phylogenetically related to Angustimassarina quercicola, but associated with a different host. Angustimassarina quercicola (holotype) was recorded on Quercus robur L. (Fagaceae) (Thambugala et al. 2015), while our collection was found on Rosa canina L. (Rosaceae).
Figure x. Angustimassarina quercicola (MFLU 15-1026). a–b Ascomata. c Cross section of ascoma. d Close up of the peridium. e Pseudoparaphyses. f–j Asci. k–m Ascospores. n Germinating ascospore. Scale bars: a = 200 μm, b–c = 100 μm, d = 10 μm, e = 5 μm, f–j = 20 μm, k–n = 10 μm.
References:
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.
Wanasinghe DN, Phukhamsakda C, Hyde KD, Jeewon R et al. 2018 – Fungal diversity notes 709–839: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to fungal taxa with an emphasis on fungi on Rosaceae. Fungal diversity 89, 1–236.
Last Update: 11 June 2021