Melanographium Sacc., 1913

Lu, Chang-Tao, Ren, Yu-Lin, Habib, Kamran, Zhang, Qin-Fang, Liu, Li-Li, Kang, Ji-Chuan, Shen, Xiang-Chun, Wijayawardene, Nalin N., Al-Rejaie, Salim S., Loinheuang, Chanhom, Li, Qi-Rui, Long, Qing-De & Elgorban, Abdallah M., 2025, Two new species of Nigropunctata and the first report of sexual morph of Melanographium citri (Pallidoperidiaceae, Xylariales) from south-western China, MycoKeys 122, pp. 257-275 : 257-275

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.122.161215

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17143891

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Melanographium Sacc.
status

 

Melanographium Sacc. View in CoL View at ENA , Annls mycol. 11 (6): 557 (1913) emend.

Description.

Sexual morph: Ascomata immersed, globose to subglobose, ostiolate. Peridium bilayered, outer dark brown, inner hyaline, cell textura angularis. Paraphyses filamentous, guttulate. Asci 8 - spored, unitunicate, clavate-cylindrical, short-pedicellate, apical apparatus inamyloid. Ascospores unicellular, fusiform with rounded ends, dark brown, surrounded by a distinct mucilaginous sheath, germ slit centre, ca. 1 / 4 of the length of the ascospore. Asexual morph: Conidiophore dark, unbranched, emerging from immersed stromata, macronematous, mononematous, conidiogenous cells polyblastic with sympodial proliferation. Conidia pigmented, 1 - celled, often reniform.

Type species.

Melanographium selenioides (Sacc. & Paol.) M. B. Ellis = M. spleniosporum Sacc.