Pyrenomycetes Species Page

Ceratosphaeria lampadophora

Large separate ascomata
phragmospore
(Berk. & Broome) Niessl, Verhandl. naturforsch Vereines Brünn. 14: 43 (1876)
Sphaeria lampadophora Berk. & Broome
Sordariomycetidae
Magnaporthaceae
Figure from SMH4822
Genbank Accession: AY346270 (LSU)
Complete Description
Ascomata depressed globose, long beaked, brown to yellow brown, beak surface smooth, at times with yellow crystals, venter ca. 1000 µm diam, neck 850-900 µm long, occurring solitary, or in small groups, immersed becoming erumpent or only beaks erumpent. Ascomal wall in longitudinal section composed of an inner layer of flattened hyaline cells, a middle layer of small, polygonal to irregular, pale brown cells, an outer layer of irregular, yellow brown, pseudoparenchymatic cells. Ascomatal apex elongate beak-like, 850-900 µm high, 225-240 µm wide. Paraphyses abundant, ca. 4.5-5.5 µm wide just above the asci, long tapering above. Asci cylindrical, 150-175 x 8-9.5 µm; with a tall, narrow, apical ring, 2-3 ?m wide, 3-3.5 ?m high; with 8 biseriate ascospores. Ascospores fusiform, hyaline, 5-7-septate, 52-72 x 3.5-4.5 µm.
Occurrence
The species is known from Europe and the sequenced collection is from France.
Reference
Huhndorf, S.M., M. Greif, G.K. Mugambi and A.N. Miller. 2008. Two new genera in the Magnaporthaceae, a new addition to Ceratosphaeria and two new species of Lentomitella. Mycologia 100: 940-955. • Hyde, K.D., S.J. Read, E.B. Gareth Jones and S.T. Moss. 1997. Tropical Australian Freshwater Fungi. XII. Rivulicola incrustata gen. et sp. nov. and notes on Ceratosphaeria lampadophora. Nova Hedwigia 64:185-196.