Stigmidium

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Stigmidium
Herbarium specimen of Stigmidium marinum, preserved by Richard Deakin in 1854
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Capnodiales
Family: Mycosphaerellaceae
Genus: Stigmidium
Trevis. (1860)
Type species
Stigmidium schaereri
(A.Massal.) Trevis. (1860)
Species

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Synonyms[1]

Stigmidium is a genus of lichenicolous (lichen-dwelling) fungi in the family Mycosphaerellaceae.[2]

Taxonomy

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The genus was circumscribed by Italian botanist Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon in 1860, with Stigmidium schaereri assigned as the type species.[3]

Description

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Stigmidium species are minute, mostly lichen-dwelling fungi that usually lack a visible body (thallus). Most live embedded in the tissues of their host lichens, though one species appears genuinely lichenised (forming a partnership with green algae of the genus Dilabifilum) and a few are parasites of brown algae. Their vegetative filaments (hyphae) are branched, pale to light brown, and consist of elongate cells that are mostly immersed within the host; compact tissue masses (stromata) are not formed.

The ascospore-producing structures are tiny, dark, flask-shaped perithecia with short necks and thick, melanised walls. They develop within the host thallus and may later break through the surface (erumpent). Stiff hairs (setae) are absent, but some species show small hyphal outgrowths or grow within a mat of surface mycelium. Inside the perithecium, the sterile tissue (the hamathecium) is variable and made up of narrow pseudoparaphyses that are often poorly developed and frequently break down as the spores mature; in some species, the pore (ostiole) is lined by short filaments called periphysoids.[4]

The spore sacs (asci) are few in number, club- to sack-shaped, thick-walled, and fissitunicate (the wall splits into layers to release the spores). They lack a differentiated tip structure, do not stain blue in iodine, and usually contain eight ascospores. The spores are arranged in two rows, cylindrical to club-shaped or ellipsoidal, thin- and smooth-walled, usually colourless but sometimes browning late in development. They are typically 1-septate (rarely with three septa), and each cell often contains two oil droplets (guttules), which can give the illusion of additional cross-walls; no outer gelatinous coat (perispore) is present. Asexual states (anamorphs) are unknown for most species, and no secondary metabolites (lichen products) have been reported.[4]

Species

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References

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