Moesziomyces Vánky
Index Fungorum number: IF 16221; Mycobank number: MB 16221
Notes – The species of Moesziomyces are parasites on grasses but anamorphic stages were isolated as yeasts from plant surfaces. The sori of the parasitic species are in ovaries, covered by green later brown peridium of host tissue. The spores are arranged in many-spored balls, firmly agglutinated and mixed with sterile cells (Vánky 2011; He et al. 2024). During an examination of grasses in the herbarium of the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin (B), a specimen of Echinochloa oryzoides from Greece, infected by Moesziomyces bullatus, was found. It is reported here as a new record for Greece (Fig. 1).
Figure 1 – Most likely tree generated using maximum likelihood analysis (RAxML-NG, Kozlov et al. 2019) implemented in RAxMLGUI (Edler et al. 2021) based on a MAFFT v7.450 (Katoh and Standley 2013) alignment of ITS. The tree is rooted with Triodiomyces altilis (Syd.) McTaggart & R.G. Shivas and Ustilago echinata J. Schröt. Values at nodes indicate bootstrap values inferred by 1000 replicates; only values≥60% are shown
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