Nautosphaeria

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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 fund 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]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 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. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany. 13: 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.