Striatiguttula S.N.Zhang, K.D.Hyde & J.K.Liu, gen. nov.

Zhang, Sheng-Nan, D. Hyde, Kevin, Gareth Jones, E. B., Jeewon, Rajesh, Cheewangkoon, Ratchadawan & Liu, Jian-Kui, 2019, Striatiguttulaceae, a new pleosporalean family to accommodate Longicorpus and Striatiguttula gen. nov. from palms, MycoKeys 49, pp. 99-129 : 107

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.49.30886

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scientific name

Striatiguttula S.N.Zhang, K.D.Hyde & J.K.Liu, gen. nov.
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Striatiguttula S.N.Zhang, K.D.Hyde & J.K.Liu, gen. nov.

Etymology.

Name refers to the striate and guttulate ascospores.

Description.

Saprobic on palms which are distributed in mangrove habitats. Sexual morph: Stromata black, scattered to gregarious, immersed beneath host epidermis, and erumpent to superficial, with a papilla or a short to long neck, ampulliform, subglobose or conical, uni-loculate or bi-loculate, coriaceous to carbonaceous, ostiolate, periphysate, papillate, clypeate or not, glabrous or somewhat interwoven pale brown hyphae or setae, lying at apex of the neck. Peridium thin, composed of several pale brown to hyaline angular cells. Wall of the neck having elongated angular cells. Hamathecium filament thin, trabeculate pseudoparaphyses, septate, branched, anastomosing, embedded in a gelatinous matrix. Asci 8-spored, bitunicate, cylindric-clavate, pedicellate, apically rounded, with an ocular chamber. Ascospores hyaline to brown, uniseriate to biseriate or triseriate, fusiform to ellipsoidal, 1-3-septate, constrict, the middle cells slightly swollen towards the central septa, striate, guttulate, end cells slightly paler or not, surrounded by a mucilaginous sheath. Asexual morph: Undetermined.

Type species.

Striatiguttula nypae S.N.Zhang, K.D.Hyde & J.K.Liu.