Nautosphaeria

Nautosphaeria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Sordariomycetes
Order:	Microascales
Family:	Halosphaeriaceae
Genus:	Nautosphaeria E.B.G.Jones (1964) [1]
Type species
Nautosphaeria cristaminuta E.B.G.Jones (1964) [1]

Nautosphaeria is a genus of fungi in the family Halosphaeriaceae. ^[2] This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Nautosphaeria cristaminuta, which was found on submerged wood. ^[1]

The genus was introduced by Jones in 1964. It is characterized by spherical, hyaline to cream-colored ascomata, broadly clavate or ellipsoidal, pedunculate asci and one-celled, ellipsoidal, hyaline (glass-like) conidia which possess a tuft of bristle-like appendages at each end and four tufts around the equator (Jones 1964). ^[1] Phylogenetic analysis showed that Nautosphaeria was clustered with Tubakiella basal to Halosphaeriaceae family (Sakayaroj et al. 2011). ^[3]

References

1. Jones, E.B.G. (1964). "Nautosphaeria cristaminuta gen. et sp. nov., a marine pyrenomycete on submerged wood". Trans. Br. Mycol. Soc. 47: 97–101.
2. Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. 13. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany: 1–58. Retrieved 2015-09-24.
3. Sakayaroj, J.; Pang, K.L.; Jones, E.B.G. (2011). "Multi-gene phylogeny of the Halosphaeriaceae: its ordinal status, relationships between genera and morphological character evolution". Fungal Diversity. 46 (1): 87–109.