Praelongicaulis
kandeliae
(Abdel-Wahab & E.B.G. Jones) E.B.G. Jones, Abdel-Wahab, & K.L. Pang, comb. nov. Fungal Divers. 73: 21 (2015)
Sordariomycetes, Subclass Hypocreomycetidae
Microascales
Halosphaeriaceae
Sexual morph: Saprobic. Ascomata ellipsoidal, dark coloured, membranous to coriaceous, immersed, ostiolate. Necks periphysate. Peridium two layers of cells of textura angularis, outer layer of polygonal dark brown, melanised cells with large lumina, inner layer of elongated, polygonal, light brown cells. Asci 8-spored, thin-walled, unitunicate, clavate, persistent, with a long pedicellate. Catenophyses present. Ascospores hyaline, ellipsoidal, thin-walled, 1-septate, not constricted at the septum. Appendages bipolar, at first hamate that deliquesce in water to form thin flat sheets.
Key references:
Jones EBG, Suetrong S, Sakayaroj J, Bahkali AH, Abdel-Wahab MA, Boekhout T, Pang KL (2015) Classification of marine Ascomycota, Basidiomycota, Blastocladiomycota and Chytridiomycota. Fungal Diversity 73: 1-72.
PangKL, Jones EBG (2004) Reclassification of Halosarpheia and related genera with unfurling ascospore appendages. Nova Hedwigia 78: 269–271.
Pang KL, Vrijmoed LLP, Kong RYC, Jones EBG (2003) Lignincola and Nais, polyphyletic genera of the Halosphariales (Ascomycota). Nova Hedwigia 78: 269–271.
Sakayaroj J, Pang KL, Jones EBG (2011) Multi-gene phylogeny of the Halosphaeriaceae: its ordinal status, relationships between genera and morphological character evolution. Fungal Diversity 46:87–109.