Myriangium duriaei
Specimen examined: Argentina, Delta del Paraná, on Chrysomphalus aonidium, 23 July 1934, L. Godsinsky, CBS 260.36.
The genus Myriangium (Myrangiales, Dothideomycetes) is based on the type species M. duriaei. The genus is associated with scale insects or resinous exudates, and is presumably parasitic. It is widely distributed on many kinds of scale insects in the tropics.
Myriangium is characterized by having erumpent, black stromata, crustose or pulvinate, composed on thin, brown, pseudoparenchymatous tissue, containing ascomatal locules that each have an ascus. Asci globose to obovate, 8-spored, sessile, fissitunicate, with poorly defined ocular chamber. Ascospores hyaline, smooth, muriformly septate, frequently constricted at septa.
Literature
Mont. & Berk., London Journal of Botany, 4: 73 (1845)
Cannon FP, Kirk PM. (2007). Fungal families of the world. CAB International, UK.
Genome Reference(s)
Haridas S, Albert R, Binder M, Bloem J, LaButti K, Salamov A, Andreopoulos B, Baker SE, Barry K, Bills G, Bluhm BH, Cannon C, Castanera R, Culley DE, Daum C, Ezra D, González JB, Henrissat B, Kuo A, Liang C, Lipzen A, Lutzoni F, Magnuson J, Mondo SJ, Nolan M, Ohm RA, Pangilinan J, Park HJ, Ramírez L, Alfaro M, Sun H, Tritt A, Yoshinaga Y, Zwiers LH, Turgeon BG, Goodwin SB, Spatafora JW, Crous PW, Grigoriev IV
101 Dothideomycetes genomes: A test case for predicting lifestyles and emergence of pathogens.
Stud Mycol. 2020 Jun;96():141-153. doi: 10.1016/j.simyco.2020.01.003
