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(American Journal of Botany. 1999;86:780-784.)
© 1999 Botanical Society of America, Inc.

The morphology of Cercophora palmicola (Lasiosphaeriaceae)1

Richard T. Hanlin

Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-7274

A detailed study of ascomal morphology and development in Cercophora palmicola showed that ontogeny is ascohymeniaceous, giving rise to an ostiolate perithecium. Ascomal initials consist of a coiled ascogonium surrounded by several layers of hyphae whose cells become pseudoparenchymatous. The centrum of the young ascoma is composed of a few rows of large, thin-walled pseudoparenchymatous cells that line the ascomal wall, with the central region filled by tightly packed, filamentous paraphyses. The ascogenous system forms along the inside of the layer of pseudoparenchymatous cells at the base of the paraphyses and gives rise to unitunicate asci that grow up among the paraphyses. The wall of the mature perithecium is greatly thickened. It is composed of three regions: a thin outer region of darkly pigmented, angular cells with thickened walls; a broad central region of cells with gelatinized walls; and a thin inner region of flattened cells. Ascomal ontogeny in C. palmicola conforms well to the Sordaria type of development, as defined by Huang.

Key Words: ascomal development • Ascomycota • centrum ontogeny • Lasiosphaeriaceae • Sordariaceae • Sordariales






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