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The database is hosted by Kiel University
and is established by Magda Wieckowska-
Lüth, Wiebke Kirleis and Kay Schmütz,
Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology.
© Wieckowska-Lüth/Kirleis/Schmütz 2020
Type: UG-1112
Category: Fungi
Taxonomical identification: Phaeosphaeria-type
First publication: Gelorini, V., Verbeken, A., van Geel, B., Cocqyt, C. and Vershuren, D. (2011) Modern non-pollen palynomorphs from East African lake sediments. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 164, 143–173
Other publication/s:
Ellis, M.B. and Ellis, J.P. (1985) Microfungi on Land Plants. Croom Helm Ldt, Kent
Shoemaker, R.A. and Babcock, C.E. (1989) Phaeosphaeria. Canadian Journal of Botany 67, 1500–1599
Description: Ascospores narrowly fusiform, unequally and asymmetrically 4-celled, brown, 25 × 6 μm, longitudinally and finely striate, thick-walled, slightly constricted at the septa; one central cell enlarged; end cells tapering. This morphotype resembles Phaeosphaeria, in which one central cell is commonly enlarged (Shoemaker and Babcock, 1989), but may also be related to other genera, which have similarly looking ascospores (such as Lophiostoma and Leptosphaeria) (Ellis and Ellis, 1985).
(Sub-) Fossil occurence: No information
Co-occurence: No information
Modern occurence: Species of Phaeosphaeria are known as pathogens on cereals, wild grasses, sedges and rushes (Shoemaker and Babcock, 1989).
Palaeoenvironmental indication: No information