Trans. Mycol. Soc. Japan 19:129-134. 1978.
Typus: P. lignicola Minuora & T. Muroi
Location of type: HUT (?)
Type studies: Shearer (Canadian Journal of Botany 67:1944-1955. 1989)
Anamorph: phialidic (Shearer 1989)
Status:
Number of epithets: 6+
Monograph:
Additional literature: Asthana & Shearer (Mycologia 82:554-561. 1990, culture studies); Chen et al. (Experimental Mycology 19:191-201. 1995, molecular phylogeny); Shearer (Web site: Freshwater Ascomycete Database www.life.uiuc.edu/plantbio/fungi/)
ascomata immersed, depressed globose with long neck erumpent, yellowish,
soft
ascospores narrow fusiform-cylindrical, hyaline-yellowish, 5-7 septate,
55-70 x 4.5-6.5 µm
Freshwater habitat, found on wood in temperate and tropical locations.
Illustrated species is a Costa Rican collection of P. lignicola.
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