Darkera parca H.S. Whitney, J. Reid & Piroz., Canadian

Crous, Pedro W., Müller, Michael M., Sánchez, Romina M., Giordano, Lucrecia, Bianchinotti, M. Virginia, Anderson, Freda E. & Groenewald, Johannes Z., 2015, Resolving Tiarosporella spp. allied to Botryosphaeriaceae and Phacidiaceae, Phytotaxa 202 (2), pp. 73-93 : 83

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Darkera parca H.S. Whitney, J. Reid & Piroz., Canadian
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Darkera parca H.S. Whitney, J. Reid & Piroz., Canadian View in CoL Journal of Botany 53: 3053 (1975); Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4

Synonyms: Sphaeropsis parca Berk. & Broome, Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5: 420 (1850)

Phoma parca (Berk. & Broome) Sacc., Sylloge fungorum (Abellini) 3: 100 (1884)

Macrophoma parca (Berk. & Broome) Berl. & Voglino, Atti della Società Veneziana-Trentina-Istriana di Scienze Naturali 10: 191 (1886)

Sirococcus parcus (Berk. & Broome) M. Morelet , as “parca ”, Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles et d’Archéologie de Toulon et du Var 205: 9 (1973)

Tiarosporella parca (Berk. & Broome) H.S. Whitney, J. Reid & Piroz., Canadian View in CoL Journal of Botany 53: 3055 (1975)

Conidiomata globose, immersed to erumpent, brown, up to 250 μm diam, opening by means if an irregular rupture; wall of 3–6 layers of brown textura angularis. Conidiophores reduced to conidiogenous cells. Conidiogenous cells lining the inner cavity, hyaline, smooth, ampulliform to subcylindrical, proliferating percurrently at apex, mono- to polyphialidic, 8–15 × 3–4 μm. Paraphyses intermingled among conidiogenous cells, hyaline to pale brown, smooth to verruculose, 0–4-septate, subcylindrical with obtuse ends, 30–55 × 2–3 μm. Conidia solitary, hyaline, smooth, guttulate, fusoid-ellipsoid to subcylindrical, straight to curved, apex apiculate, tapering at base to truncate hilum, 2 μm diam, (22–)25–30(–41) × (6–)7(–7.5) μm; apex with flared mucoid appendage, up to 15 μm long, 13 μm diam (based on CPC 23904).

Culture characteristics:— Colonies dirty white on all media, with moderate aerial mycelium and feathery margins, covering dish in 1 mo.

Specimens examined:— SIBERIA. Buriatia , Zum Murino, Tunkinski-valley, on needles of P. abies , 14 Nov. 2008, M. Müller, Ir 406 = CPC 23903 View Materials ; roadside between Zum Murino and Irkutsk, healthy needles of needles of P. abies var. obovata , 14 Nov. 2008, M. Müller, Ir 419 = CPC 23904 View Materials .

Notes:— Although the connection between the sexual and asexual morph was based on association, and not confirmed via culture studies, we regard this link as probably correct, as tiarosporella-like morphs have been linked to more than one species of Darkera ( Whitney et al. 1975) . Furthermore, the present fungus corresponds very well with the asexual morph identified by Whitney et al. (1975) from Canada as T. parca (conidia (20–)23–40 × 4–6(–7) μm), and linked to Darkera parca . However these dimensions differ slightly from those provided later by Nag Raj (1993) for D. parca , which are larger, (29–)35–43 × 9–12 μm. It could well be that the original species described from the UK as Sphaeropsis parca Berk. & Broome is not conspecific with the Canadian D. parca . For this reason we propose to retain the name D. parca H.S. Whitney, J. Reid & Piroz. 1975 for the collections from Canada and Siberia. Further cultures and molecular data need to be studied to resolve the issue if Darkera parca from Canada is conspecific with Sphaeropsis parca Berk. & Broome 1850 from the UK.

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Botanische Staatssammlung München

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Leotiomycetes

Order

Phacidiales

Family

Phacidiaceae

Genus

Darkera

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Darkera parca H.S. Whitney, J. Reid & Piroz., Canadian

Crous, Pedro W., Müller, Michael M., Sánchez, Romina M., Giordano, Lucrecia, Bianchinotti, M. Virginia, Anderson, Freda E. & Groenewald, Johannes Z. 2015
2015
Loc

Sirococcus parcus (Berk. & Broome)

Berk. & Broome 1973: 9
1973
Loc

Macrophoma parca (Berk. & Broome) Berl. & Voglino, Atti della Società

Berk. & Broome 1886: 191
1886
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