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New freshwater species of Ascotaiwania and Savoryella from Taiwan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1998

H. S. CHANG
Affiliation:
Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan 11529, Republic of China
S.-Y. HSIEH
Affiliation:
Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan 11529, Republic of China
E. B. G. JONES
Affiliation:
Department of Biology and Chemistry, City University, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong
S. J. READ
Affiliation:
School of Biological Sciences, University of Portsmouth, King Henry Building, King Henry I Street, Portsmouth PO1 2DY, U.K.
S. T. MOSS
Affiliation:
School of Biological Sciences, University of Portsmouth, King Henry Building, King Henry I Street, Portsmouth PO1 2DY, U.K.
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Abstract

Four new taxa are described, each having multiseptate ascospores with hyaline end cells; Savoryella limnetica, Ascotaiwania wulai, A. hsilio and A. sawada. Savoryella and Ascotaiwania are evaluated and separated by the following characters: Savoryella has broad, up to 8 μm paraphyses (sparse) that are septate and rounded at their ends, and smaller asci with an apical thickening containing a plugged pore and 3-septate ascospores; Ascotaiwania has narrow, filiform, septate paraphyses up to 2 μm wide, but these deliquesce early and are rarely observed in mature ascomata. Ascotaiwania also has asci with a well-developed apical ring and plugged pore and ascospores generally with more than 3 septa. Ultrastructural studies of A. lignicola showed that the ascopores are covered by a thin mucilaginous sheath and unitunicate asci with the wall comprising an outer, 30–40 nm electron-dense layer and an inner, 420–450 nm, thick, electron-transparent layer. Asci have a well-developed apical apparatus consisting of an electron-dense apical ring with a plug. The plug deliquesces prior to ascospore release. The ascospore wall comprises an electron-dense episporium and a less electron-dense mesosporium. External to the episporium is a fibro-granular sheath.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© The British Mycological Society 1998

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