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Proboscispora aquatica gen. et sp. nov., from wood submerged in freshwater

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1999

SZE-WING WONG
Affiliation:
Department of Ecology and Biodiversity, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
KEVIN D. HYDE
Affiliation:
Department of Ecology and Biodiversity, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
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Abstract

A new freshwater ascomycete genus Proboscispora is introduced to accommodate P. aquatica collected on wood submerged in streams in Australia and the Philippines. Proboscispora is characterized by having immersed, ellipsoidal, papillate ascomata, septate tapering paraphyses, cylindrical unitunicate asci with a refractive apical ring, and 3-septate, hyaline ascospores provided with coiled or proboscis-like bipolar filamentous appendages. Proboscispora aquatica is illustrated at the electron microscope level and is compared with Annulatascus, Ceratosphaeria, Ceriospora, Ceratostomella and Rivulicola, with which it shares some common characters.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© The British Mycological Society 1999

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