Pseudotruncatella R.H. Perera, Camporesi, Maharachch. & K.D. Hyde, 2018

Perera, Rekhani H., Maharachchikumbura, Sajeewa S. N., Hyde, Kevin D., Bhat, D. Jayarama, Camporesi, Erio, Jones, E. B. Gareth, Senanayake, Indunil C., Al-Sadi, Abdullah M., Saichana, Natsaran, Liu, Jian-Kui & Liu, Zuo-Yi, 2018, An appendage-bearing coelomycete Pseudotruncatella arezzoensis gen. and sp. nov. (Amphisphaeriales genera incertae sedis) from Italy, with notes on Monochaetinula, Phytotaxa 338 (2), pp. 177-188 : 181

Pseudotruncatella R.H. Perera, Camporesi, Maharachch. & K.D. Hyde , gen. nov.

Index fungorum number: IF553932, Facesoffungi number: FoF: 03838

Etymology:— Morphologically resembling the genus Truncatella , but phylogenetically distinct.

Saprobic on dead branches of Cytisus and Helichrysum species. Sexual morph: Undetermined. Asexual morph: Conidiomata acervular to pycnidioid, scattered or gregarious, rounded to oval in outline, unilocular, immersed to semi-immersed, epidermal to sub-epidermal in origin. Peridium comprising hyaline to pale brown, thick-walled cells of textura angularis. Conidiophores arising from basal and lateral cavity-surface of conidioma, cylindrical, septate, branched, sometimes unbranched or reduced to conidiogenous cells, smooth, hyaline. Conidiogenous cells cylindrical, occasionally ampulliform, holoblastic, phialidic, annellidic, with a few percurrent proliferations, indeterminate, integrated, hyaline, smooth, thick-walled, with several percurrent proliferations. Conidia fusiform to clavate, straight, 3-septate, not constricted at septa, with dark brown median cells and hyaline apical and basal cells, bearing 3 apical appendages; narrowly obconic and truncate base, guttulate, thick-walled, smooth-walled; 2-median cells large, thick-walled, smooth-walled, upper median cell subcylindrical to conic, lower median cell narrowly obconic; apical cell conic, smooth, thick-walled; apical appendages simple, tubular, hyaline, smooth-walled.

Type:— Pseudotruncatella arezzoensis R.H. Perera, Camporesi, Maharachch. & K.D. Hyde