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Luttrellia Shearer

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Department of Plant Science, Agriculture Building, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R 3 T 2 N 2, Canada & Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand
  • 2. Department of Botany and Microbiology, King Saudi University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • 3. Microbial Type Culture Collection and Gene Bank (MTCC), CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, 160036, India & Fungal Biotechnology Lab, Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Kalapet, Pondicherry- 605014, India
  • 4. Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand
  • 5. Department of Botany and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, Sohag 82524, Egypt
  • 6. Division of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Visayas, Miagao, Iloilo, 5023 Philippines
  • 7. CE 3 C – Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Departamento de Biologia (DBio), Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL), Campo Grande 1749 - 016, Lisbon, Portugal & CHANGE – Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Departamento de Biologia (DBio), Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL), Campo Grande 1749 - 016, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 8. Department of Biology School of Science, Walailak University, 222 Thaiburi, Thasala district, Nakhon Si Thammarat 80161, Thailand
  • 9. Archaeal Biology Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China & College of Life Sciences and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
  • 10. School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
  • 11. Institute of Marine Biology and Center of Excellence for the Oceans, National Taiwan Ocean University, 2 Pei-Ning Road, Keelung 202301, Taiwan

Description

Luttrellia Shearer, Mycologia 70 (3): 692 (1978)

Description.

Saprobic on submerged balsa test panels. Sexual morph. Ascomata superficial, globose to subglobose membranous, becoming pale brown ostiolate, neck long, cylindrical hyaline and periphysate. Asci clavate to cylindrical, thin-walled and deliquescing. Catenophyses present. Ascospores hyaline, multiseptate and lacking appendages. The only genus in the Halosphaeriaceae with tetrasporic asci. Asexual morph. Undermined.

Type species.

Luttrellia estuarina Shearer, Mycologia 70 (3): 693 (1978).

Notes.

Shearer (1978) assigned Luttrellia to the Halosphaeriaceae as it compared with hyaline, unappendaged ascosporous genera in the family: Lignincola, Nais and Aniptodera, but chose not to emend the generic concept of Nais. Luttrellia species are saprobic on wood in freshwater and brackish water.

Molecular evaluation.

There are no DNA sequences available for any Luttrellia species. Recollection, isolation and sequencing are required to determine the taxonomic position of the four Luttrellia species in the Halosphaeriaceae.

Notes

Published as part of Dayarathne, Monika C., Jones, E. B. Gareth, Bahkali, Ali H., Devadatha, Bandarupalli, Hyde, Kevin D., Abdel-Wahab, Mohamed A., Calabon, Mark S., Correia, Pedro, Abdel-Aziz, Faten A., Bakhit, Mahmoud S., Sakayaroj, Jariya, Prematunga, Chasika, Caeiro, Maria F., Azevedo, Egídia, Asghari, Raheleh, Apurillo, Carlo Chris S., Bhagya, Amuhenage Tharindu, Aumentado, Herbert Dustin, Mukhopadhyay, Samhita, Phukhamsakda, Chayanard, Chen, Yanpeng, Maharachchikumbura, Sajeewa S., Guo, Sheng-Yu & Pang, Ka-Lai, 2026, Taxonomy and molecular evaluation of the Halosphaeriaceae (Microascales, Hypocreomycetidae), pp. 1-202 in MycoKeys 135 on pages 1-202, DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.135.187540

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/FD81E66DBA015524A996EA4CEB5FB68E

Cites
Publication: 10.1080/00275514.1978.12020274 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.3897/mycokeys.135.187540 (DOI)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/317C0E207F245909A538BE61F876BD7B (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/FD81E66DBA015524A996EA4CEB5FB68E (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/325855495 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/315636/taxon/FD81E66DBA015524A996EA4CEB5FB68E.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Shearer
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Ascomycota
Order
Microascales
Family
Halosphaeriaceae
Genus
Luttrellia
Taxon rank
genus

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