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SUBMITTER: Sanoamuang N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3719209 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
IMA fungus 20130514 1
Gelatinomyces siamensis gen. sp. nov., incertae sedis within Leotiomycetes, the Siamese jelly-ball, is described. The fungus was collected from bamboo culms and branches in Nam Nao National Park, Phetchabun, Thailand. It presents as a ping-pong ball-sized and golf ball-like gelatinous ascostroma. The asci have numerous ascospores, are thick-walled, and arise on discoid apothecia which are aggregated and clustered to form the spherical gelatinous structures. An hyphomycete asexual morph is morpho ...[more]