Dematiopleospora, Wanas., Camporesi, E.B.G.Jones & K.D.Hyde, 2017

Huang, Shike, Jeewon, Rajesh, Wanasinghe, Dhanushka N., Bulgakov, Timur S. & Kang, Jichuan, 2017, Phylogenetic taxonomy of Dematiopleospora fusiformis sp. nov. (Phaeosphaeriaceae) from Russia, Phytotaxa 316 (3), pp. 239-249 : 243

Key to species of Dematiopleospora based on the sexual morph

1. Ostiole without setae, ascospores with rounded ends........................................................................................................................2

1. Ostiole comprising light brown setae, ascospores with narrower ends .............................................................................................. 3

2. Uniseriate ascospores with less than 4 transverse septa 3 ......................................................................... Dematiopleospora alliariae

2. Overlapping biseriate ascospores with more than 4 transverse septa 2 ................................................................................ D. luzulae

3. Ascospores shorter than 35 μm, yellowish brown or golden-brown..................................................................................................4

3. Ascospores longer than 35 μm, light brown................................................................................................................... D. fusiformis

4. Immersed ascomata, ascospores with 7 transverse septa and much longer lower part than upper part 3 ................................. D. cirsii

4. Superficial ascomata, ascospores with 9–10 transverse septa, and upper and lower parts of equal length 1 ....................... D. mariae

1 Wanasinghe et al. (2014), 2 Ariyawansa et al. (2015), 3 Hyde et al. (2016)