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Ultrastructural studies on the aquatic ascomycetes Annulatascus velatisporus and A. triseptatus sp. nov.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 1999

SZE-WING WONG
Affiliation:
Fungal Diversity Research Project, Department of Ecology and Biodiversity, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
KEVIN D. HYDE
Affiliation:
Fungal Diversity Research Project, Department of Ecology and Biodiversity, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
E. B. GARETH JONES
Affiliation:
Department of Biology and Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong
STEPHEN T. MOSS
Affiliation:
School of Biological Sciences, University of Portsmouth, King Henry Building, King Henry I Street, Portsmouth, PO1 2DY, U.K.
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Abstract

Annulatascus species are common freshwater ascomycetes in the tropics. In this paper, the type species, Annulatascus velatisporus, and a new species, A. triseptatus, are described and illustrated at light and electron microscope levels. Annulatascus triseptatus differs from A. velatisporus in having three-septate ascospores surrounded by a thin sheath. The asci of both species have bilamellate ascus walls and a bipartite apical ring. The upper part of the apical ring differentiates from the inner ascus wall layer and the lower part elongates downwards during maturation. The mesosporium is the first formed ascospore wall layer followed by the episporium, which is covered with verruculose ornamentations. The mucilaginous sheath of the ascospores is fibrillar or amorphous depending on the fixation methods employed, and appears to be derived from the episporial verruculose ornamentations.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
The British Mycological Society 1999

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