1. Rhagadolobiopsis, a new genus of Parmulariaceae from Brazil with a description of the ontogeny of its ascomata.
- Author
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Guatimosim E, Pinto HJ, Barreto RW, and Prado J
- Subjects
- Ascomycota genetics, Ascomycota growth & development, Brazil, Molecular Sequence Data, Phylogeny, Spores, Fungal classification, Spores, Fungal genetics, Spores, Fungal growth & development, Spores, Fungal isolation & purification, Ascomycota classification, Ascomycota isolation & purification, Ferns microbiology, Plant Diseases microbiology
- Abstract
During a survey of the mycobiota of selected Brazilian ferns we discovered a new genus of Parmulariaceae causing tar spot-like symptoms on leaves of Thelypteris serrata (Thelypteridaceae). The new genus and species, decribed as Rhagadolobiopsis thelypteridis, differs from morphologically similar species of Rhagadolobium in possessing colorless, aseptate ascospores and a hymenial gel that does not become blue with iodine. In addition this is the first record of a fungus on T. serrata, and the first Parmulariaceae recorded on a member of the Thelypteridaceae. The ontogeny of the ascomata is described and illustrated here for the first time for the Parmulariaceae.
- Published
- 2014
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