Strasseria Bres. & Sacc., in Strasser, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 52: 436 (1902)
Facesoffungi number: FoF 07708
Ascomycota, genera incertae sedis
Parasiticon the host plant.Sexual morph:undetermined.Asexual morph:Conidiomata dark brown to black, stromatic, pycnidial, solitary to gregarious, immersed, globose, subglobose or irregular, unilocular or multilocular, glabrous, ostiolate.Ostiolecircular, papillate, centrally located.Conidiomatal wall composed of thick-walled, dark brown cells oftextura angularis in the basal and lateral part, gradually merging with thin-walled, pale brown cells oftextura prismatica in the middle part of locular wall, becoming thicker and darker towards ostiolar region.Conidiophores arising from inner layers of each locular wall, hyaline, cylindrical to doliiform or irregular, branched, septate, invested in mucus.Conidiogenous cells hyaline, enteroblastic, phialidic, cylindrical to lageniform, integrated or discrete, determinate, smooth-walled, with a minute channel and collarette.Conidia hyaline, allantoid to botuliform, with obtuse apex and truncate base, bearing a single, filiform, flexuous, unbranched, often oblique appendage at base, and a mucoid, infundibuliform appendage at apex (adapted from Sutton 1980, Nag Raj 1993).
Type species:Strasseria carpophila Bres.& Sacc., in Strasser, Verh. zool.-bot.Ges. Wien 52: 436 (1902)
Notes: InEleutheromyces,Monodia,Nothostrasseria,Pullospora,Strasseria,Strasseriopsis, the formation of the basal, cellular appendages precede the development of the conidia body (Nag Raj 1983, 1993). The pale brown to brown, verruculose-walled conidia inNothostrasseria separate it from other genera that have hyaline, smooth-walled conidia.Strasseria possesses both cellular and mucoid appendages, whereasEleutheromyces, Monodia,Pullospora, andStrasseriopsis have only cellular appendages.Strasseriopsis was separated fromMonodia andPullospora on the basis of the shape of the conidia, the numbers of conidial appendage, and the structure of the conidiomata.Monodia andPullospora are coprophilous fungi, and the differences among these genera are discussed underMonodia.
Strasseriais a monotypic genus, although Sutton (1980) estimated eight species inStrasseria. Nag Raj (1983) made a comprehensive revision ofStrasseria, and accepted the single species,S. geniculata (Berk. & Broome) Höhn. Other species were transferred toPhyllosticta Pers. andApostrasseria Nag Raj or excluded fromStrasseria.Strasseria carpophila was listed as a synonym ofS. geniculataby Sutton (1980) and Nag Raj (1983). However, Wijayawardene (2017) consideredS. carpophila to be an earlier name, and selected it as type species. This species is associated with branch and twig cankers and necrotic needles, black rot and blackened, necrotic tissue on various hosts (Nag Raj 1993). To clarify the taxonomy ofStrasseria, the type species will have to be recollected, and epitypified.
Distribution: Austria, Canada, Netherlands, UK, USA (Nag Raj 1993).
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