Buergenerula spartinae Kohlm. & R. V. Gessner 1976

Foodplant / feeds on
ascocarp of Buergenerula spartinae feeds on Spartina alterniflora

Foodplant / feeds on
ascocarp of Buergenerula spartinae feeds on Spartina maritima

In Great Britain and/or Ireland:
Foodplant / saprobe
ascocarp of Buergenerula spartinae is saprobic on leaf (lower-mid) of Spartina anglica
Remarks: captive: in captivity, culture, or experimentally induced

Spartina sp.

British Isles.

Colonies. With branching and anastomosing, septate, thick-walled, light- or dark-coloured hyphae 2.5-8 μm diam., forming olive-brown to blackish, lobed hyphopodia, 14-37 μm diam. Conidiophores. Formed laterally on hyphae in culture, stalked, branched, up to 20 μm long, bearing a small, "phialide"-like projection. Conidia. Curved, about 2 × 5 μm, function possibly spermatial. Ascomata. Subglobose to obpyriform, ostiolate, papillate, coriaceous, light or dark brown, solitary, immersed, often developing in air chambers of the plant tissue or between culm and leaf sheath, 300-475 μm high (excluding necks), 200-450 μm diam.; peridium 30-60 μm thick, two-layered; outer layer 8-16 μm thick, composed of three to five layers of flat, brown cells with narrow lumina; inner layer 20-30 μm thick, composed of eight to ten layers of ellipsoidal, thin-walled, colourless to light brown cells with large lumina; cells of both layers forming a textura angularis, filled with oil globules; papillae or necks 100-280 μm high, 120-180μm diam., apical or slightly lateral, cylindrical or conical; peridium composed of elongate cells with small lumina, merging toward the ostiolar canal into periphyses; periphyses filiforme, wavy, with a narrow, refractive core, surrounded by a gelatinous outer layer. Asci. Cylindrical to subfusiform, short-pedunculate or non-pedunculate, 120-190 × 18-20 μm, 8-spored with ascospores arranged in two rows, unitunicate, thick-walled, with a an ellipsoidal, ringlike apical apparatus, about 4 μm diam.; developing at the base of the ascocarp venter and growing up between the pseudoparaphyses. Ascospores. Clavate, thick at the apex, tapering at the base, mostly curved, 37-66 × 9.5-14 μm, 3- (rarely 4-) septate, not or slightly narrower at the septa, colourless. Paraphyses. Developing before the asci, 8-10 μm diam., filamentous, simple or branched, thin-walled, septate, slightly narrower at the septa, filled with oil globules, at first attached at the tip to a pseudoparenchyma of small subglobose, thin-walled, colourless cells.