Eosphaeria – Facesoffungi number: FoF 13300

Eosphaeria Höhn., Annls mycol. 15(5): 362 (1917)

MycoBank number: MB 1843; Index Fungorum number: IF 1843; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13300;  1 morphological species.

Type species – Eosphaeria uliginosa (Kunze) Höhn.

Notes – The monotypic genus Eosphaeria is characterized by verrucose ascomata, clavate asci and curved ascospores. The curved ascospores are similar to those found in Lasiosphaeria (Kruys et al. 2015). In this entry we illustrate a specimen of E. uliginosa collected in the USA. We have not compared this with the type specimens of Eosphaeria, but its morphological features fit the description of E. uliginosa (Höhnel 1917).

Figure 143 – Eosphaeria uliginosa (Material examined – USA, Maryland, of 728 Lead Mountain (Humpback), along road near parking area, 44°51’28’’N, 68°05’52’’W, beech-maple forest, on soil, 2 September 2014, RC Harris, NY 01818643). a Material label. b Material. c Ascomata on the host. d Ascoma cross section. e Peridium. f Asci with paraphyses. g-l Ascospores. Scale bars: c = 1 mm, d = 200 µm, e, f = 100 µm, g-l = 20 µm.

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