Towyspora
Towyspora Wanasinghe, E.B.G. Jones & K.D. Hyde, in Li et al., Fungal Diversity 78: [32] (2016)
Dothideomycetes, Pleosporomycetidae, Pleosporales, Lentitheciaceae
Saprobic on the host plant. Sexual morph: undetermined. Asexual morph: Conidiomata dark brown to black, eustromatic, scattered to gregarious or confluent, semi-immersed to erumpent, unilocular or multilocular, ostiolate, glabrous. Ostiole short, circular, centrally located. Conidiomatal wall composed of thick-walled, dark brown to hyaline cells of textura angularis. Conidiophores reduced to conidiogenous cells. Conidiogenous cells hyaline, enteroblastic, phialidic, lageniform to subcylindrical, thick- and smooth-walled. Conidia hyaline, cylindrical, 0–1-septate, guttulate, smooth-walled.
Type species: Towyspora aestuari Wanasinghe, E.B.G. Jones & K.D. Hyde, in Li et al., Fungal Diversity 78: [35] (2016)
Notes: Towyspora is monotypic. This genus is similar to Chaetosphaeronema in having phialidic conidiogenous cells and cylindrical, 0–1-septate conidia. However, Chaetosphaeronema has pycnidial conidiomata with periphyses, whereas Towyspora has eustromatic conidiomata lacking periphyses. Phylogenetically, Towyspora was placed in Lentitheciaceae, while Chaetosphaeronema was placed in Phaeosphaeriaceae.
Distribution: UK.
Reference:
Li WJ, McKenZie EHC, Liu JK, Bhat DJ, Dai DQ, Caporesi E, Tian Q, Maharachcikumbura SSN, Luo ZL, Shang QJ, Zhang JF, Tangthirasunun N, Karunarathna SC, Xu JC, Hyde KD (2020) Taxonomy and phylogeny of hyaline-spored coelomycetes. Fungal Diversity 100: pages279–801.
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