Neospermospora – Facesoffungi number: FoF 14074

Neospermospora Crous & U. Braun,

MycoBank number: MB 838074; Index Fungorum number: IF 838074; Facesoffungi number: FoF 14074;

Etymology: Referring to its morphological similarity to Spermospora.

Phytopathogenic, causing leaf spots. Mycelium internal, hyaline to olivaceous, septate, branched, becoming swollen in epidermal cells, and at times aggregating into swollen, vesicular conidiogenous cells, hyaline to pale olivaceous, smooth. Conidiogenous cells form narrow, blunt or pointed penetration tubes that penetrate the outer epidermal cells, giving rise to a single, terminal conidium. Conidia narrowly fusoid with long narrow rostrum, septate, not constricted at septa, straight to curved, often with single filiform sub-basal appendage, hyaline, smooth, with obconically truncate base.

Type species: Neospermospora avenae (R. Sprague & Aar.G. Johnson) Crous & U. Braun

Reference culture: CBS 227.38.

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