nypensis

Anthostomella Sacc., Atti della Società Veneziana–Trentina–Istriana di Scienze Naturali 4: 84 (1875)

Type species:

Anthostomella limitata Sacc., Atti Accad. scient. veneto–trentino–istriana: 101 (1875)

Marine species:

Anthostomella nypensis K.D. Hyde, Alias & B.S. Lu, 1999. Mycol. Res., 103: 1440.

Saprobic or parasitic, Sexual morph: Ascomata: 250–340 µm diam., 210–320 µm, high, globose to subglobose, immersed in the host, pale brown to dark brown to black, ostiolate (20–50 µm diam., 60–130 µm long), epappilate clypeate, coriaceous, periphysate, solitary or gregarious, paraphyses numerous, simple, septate. Asci:  87–110 x 9–12.5 µm, 4–8 –spored,cylindrical, short pedunculate, unitunicate, thick–walled with J+ apical apparatus. Ascospores: 12–18 x 5.5–7.5 µm, in equilaterely ellipsoidal, unicellular, with germ–slits extending over the whole length of the spore, hyaline with a thin gelatinous sheath. Asexual morph: Undetermined.

Key references:

Borse BD, Bhat DJ, Borse KN, Tuwas AR, Pawar NS (2012). Marine Fungi of India. Broadway Book Centre, India. 

Hyde KD, Goh TK, Lu BS, Alias SA (1999). Eleven new intertidal fungi from Nypa fruticans. Mycological Research. 103(11):1409–1422.

Kohlmeyer J, Volkmann–Kohlmeyer B (200). Fungi on Juncus and Spartina: New marine species of Anthostomella, with a list of marine fungi known on Spartina. Mycological Research. 106(3): 365–374’.

Kohlmeyer J, Volkmann–Kohlmeyer B, Eriksson OE (1995). Fungi on Juncus roemerianus. 3. New Ascomycetes. Botanica Marina. 38:175–186.

Namiar GR, Raveendran K (2011). Anthostomella nypensis and Biconiosporella corniculata. Additions to the marine mycoflora of India. Geobios 43: 24–27.

Schmit JP, Shearer CA (2003). A checklist of mangrove–associated fungi, their geographical distribution and known host plants. Mycotaxon 85: 423–477.

Key to marine species:

1. On Nypa fruticans                                                                                              2

1. On Juncus roemerianus and other plants                                                             4

  2.Ascospores lacking a sheath, with a hyaline basal dwarf cell,

     Ascospores 12.5–16.5x 5–7.5 µm                                                         A. nypicola

  2. Ascospores with a sheath, without a dwarf cell                                                  3

3. Ascospores 11.5–17 x 4.5–5.5 µm, in equilaterally ellipsoid,

     thin sheath, full length germ slit                                                              A. nypae

3. Ascospores 2–18 x 5.5–7.5 µm, broadly ellipsoidal, thin sheath,

     full length germ slit                                                                            A. nypensis

  4. Ascospores longer than 15 µm                                                                        5

  4. Ascospores shorter than 15 µm                                                                      6

5. Ascospores 16–19 x 6.5–8, on Juncus roemerianus                              A. semitecta

5. Ascospores 16.5–23 x 8.5–11 on Spartina alterniflora                         A. spissitecta

5. Ascospores 21.5–28 x 9.5–13 µm, on Juncus roemerianus                     A. atroalba

  6. Ascospores 10–15 x 4–7 µm, on Juncus roemerianus                            A. poecila

  6. Ascospores 13–15 x 5.5–7 µm, on Juncus roemerianus with a

           well–developed appendage                                                            A. torosa

  6. Ascospores 6–9 X 3–4 µm, oval, reniform, ends rounded, on

 Phragmites communis                                                                       A. punctulata