Neotrotteria – Facesoffungi number: FoF 10316

Neotrotteria Sacc., Bulletino dell’orto Botanico della R. Universitá di Napoli 6: 45 (1921)

MycoBank number: MB 3487; Index Fungorum number: IF 3487; Facesoffungi number: FoF 10316; 1 morphological species.

Type species – Neotrotteria pulchella Sacc.

Notes – Neotrotteria has multi-spored asci with ellipsoid ascospores (Saccardo 1918) and was treated as synonym of Acanthonitschkea (Nannfeldt 1975, Nannfeldt & Santesson 1975). Vasilyeva et al. (2010) accepted the genus as synonym of Fracchiaea based on similar morphs such as polysporous asci and hyaline ascospores. Maharachchikumbura et al. (2016b) considered Neotrotteria as an independent genus in Nitschkiaceae based on a Quellkörper in the peridium and its difference from Fracchiaea.

Figure 179 – Neotrotteria pulchella (Material examined – Taiwan, Kukuan; on stem of Lycium chinense, Chen CY, 17 July 1990, IMI no. 354793). a Material label. b Ascostroma on the host. c Collapsed ascoma. d Section through perithecium with quellkörper. e Ascoma cross section. f Setea. g Branched hyphe of subiculum. h-i Asci. j Asocspores. Scale bars: b = 2 mm, c = 500 µm, d-e = 200 µm, f-g = 50 µm, h-i = 20 µm, j = 10 µm.

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