Plagiascoma – Facesoffungi number: FoF 06765

Plagiascoma Réblová & J. Fourn., Persoonia 37:69 (2016)

MycoBank number: MB 813234; Index Fungorum number: IF 813234; Facesoffungi number: FoF 06765; 1 species with sequence data.

Type species – Plagiascoma frondosum Réblová & J. Fourn.

Notes – Plagiascoma and Pseudoascotaiwania are monotypic sexual genera in Fuscosporellaceae. The sexual morph of Plagiascoma frondosum (Fig. 106) resembles Pseudoascotaiwania persoonii in having cylindrical asci with a J-, apical ring and uniseriate (in fresh material), euseptate, fusiform ascospores. Ascospores of Plagiascoma frondosum are hyaline and 3–5-septate, while those of Pseudoascotaiwania persoonii are 5-septate, rarely 6-septate and have light brown central cells and hyaline end cells (Fallah et al. 1999, Réblová et al. 2016c).

Figure 106 – Plagiascoma frondosum (Redrawn from Réblová et al. 2016c). a, b Asci. c Ascospores. d Paraphyses. Scale bars: a = 25 µm, b = 20 µm, c, d = 10 µm.

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