Nautosphaeria is a genus of fungi in the family Halosphaeriaceae.[2] This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Nautosphaeria cristaminuta, which was found on submerged wood.[1]
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| Genus: | Nautosphaeria E.B.G.Jones (1964)[1]
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| Nautosphaeria cristaminuta E.B.G.Jones (1964)[1]
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The genus was introduced by Jones in 1964. It is characterized by spherical, hyaline to cream-colored ascomata, broadly clavate or ellipsoidal, pedunculate asci and one-celled, ellipsoidal, hyaline (glass-like) conidia which possess a tuft of bristle-like appendages at each end and four tufts around the equator (Jones 1964).[1] Phylogenetic analysis showed that Nautosphaeria was clustered with Tubakiella basal to Halosphaeriaceae family (Sakayaroj et al. 2011).[3]
References
edit- ^ a b c d Jones, E.B.G. (1964). "Nautosphaeria cristaminuta gen. et sp. nov., a marine pyrenomycete on submerged wood". Trans. Br. Mycol. Soc. 47: 97–101.
- ^ Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. 13. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany: 1–58. Retrieved 2015-09-24.
- ^ Sakayaroj, J.; Pang, K.L.; Jones, E.B.G. (2011). "Multi-gene phylogeny of the Halosphaeriaceae: its ordinal status, relationships between genera and morphological character evolution". Fungal Diversity. 46 (1): 87–109.