Macrovalsaria megalospora – Facesoffungi number: FoF 01868

Macrovalsaria megalospora (Mont.) Sivan. Trans. Br. Mycol. Soc. 65: 400 (1975).

≡ Sphaeria megalospora Mont., Annls Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 2 14: 324 (1840).

MycoBank number: MB 317110; Index Fungorum number: IF 317110; Facesoffungi number: FoF 01868; Fig. 111

Description: see Pem et al. (2019c).

Material examined: Africa, Sierra Leone, Njala (Kori), on dead branches of Caesalpinia sappan (Fabaceae), 12 July 1949, F.C Deighton (PDD 14987, co-extype).

Fig. 111 Macrovalsaria megalospora (= M. leonensis PDD 14987, co-extype). a Details of herbarium material. b Habit and appearance of ascomata on host surface. c Section of ascoma. d Peridium. e Hamathecium. f Asci. g–i Ascospores. Scale bars: b = 1 mm, c, d = 200 µm, e = 10 µm, g–i = 20 µm