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Sphaerellothecium parietinarium
Nomenclature
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Family: MycosphaerellaceaeGenus: Sphaerellothecium
SUMMARY
Anamorph: "oblong" conidiomata producing conidia 3.5-5 x 0.5-1.5 µm were reported by Roux & Triebel (1994), but not found in other studies.
Teleomorph: stromata absent. Ascomata formed in groups of 20–30, primarily on the ascomata but also on thallus elements of the host lichen, 50–80 (–100) µm diam, perithecial, globose to subglobose, mostly superficial with only the base immersed, ostiolate, the ostiole minute and hardly protruding. Ascomatal wall 8–10 µm thick, thicker in the ostiolar region, composed of several layers of radially compressed textura angularis with cells 4–6 µm diam, less strongly pigmented in the outermost layer. Interascal tissue absent, with asci developing within a weakly or non-gelatinized hymenium that does not blue in iodine. Asci 32–38 × 13–16 µm, clavate to pyriform, thick-walled, the apex thickened with an inconspicuous ocular chamber and apparently with rostrate dehiscence, not blueing in iodine, 8-spored. Ascospores biseriately arranged, 10.5–12 (–14) × (3.5–) 4–5.5 µm, initially cylindrical to cylindric-clavate, the apex and base obtuse to rounded, hardly constricted at the median to marginally submedian septum, becoming wider and with the septum slightly more constricted after dehiscence, pale brown, smooth-walled, without a gelatinous sheath or appendages.