Phragmitensis M.K.M. Wong, Poon & K.D. Hyde, Bot. Mar. 41(4): 379 (1998)

MycoBank number: MB 27890; Index Fungorum number: IF 27890; Facesoffungi number: FoF 06452; 2 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020).

Type species – Phragmitensis marina M.K.M. Wong, Poon & K.D. Hyde

Notes – Phragmitensis marina occurs on dead culms of Phragmites australis in a saline estuarine habitat in Hong Kong (Wong et al. 1998b), while P. ellipsoidea was found in freshwater (Wong et al. 1999). Phragmitensis has aggregated, immersed, pseudostromata, containing several obpyriform ascomata, clavate asci, lacking an apical ring and hyaline unicellular, cymbiform, ellipsoidal to reniform ascospores, with distal end tapered more than the proximal end and surrounded by a mucilaginous sheath (Wong et al. 1998b, 1999).

Species

  • Phragmitensis marina