Notes.

Taxon classification

Animalia

Melanosporales

Ceratostomataceae

Marin-Felix

Yasmina

Guarro

Josep

ano-Lira

José F.

García

Dania

iller

Andrew N.

Stchigel

Alberto M.

Melanospora

(

Sordariomycetes

Ascomycota

) and its relatives

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Melanospora

damnosa

(Sacc.) Lindau, in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam., Teil. I (Leipzig) 1: 353. 1897.

Fig. 4A, B, D, F, H

Sphaeroderma

damnosum

Sacc., Riv. Patol. veg. 4: 64. 1895. [Basionym]

Notes.

Melanosporadamnosa is distinguised by the production of ascomata with a short neck and citriform to rhomboidal, smooth-walled ascospores with a slightly apiculate germ pore at each end.

Figure 4.

Morphological features of the genus Melanospora. Melanosporadamnosa (CBS 113681). A Ascoma B Ascomatal neck D Detail of hyphal neck F Ascospores H Ascospore germinating. Melanosporazamiae (NBRC 7902) C Ascomatal neck E Detail of ascomatal wall. Melanosporaverrucispora (NBRC 31375^T) G Ascospores I Phialidic asexual morph. Scale bars: 50 μm (A); 10 μm (B–E, I); 5 μm (F–H).