Fusicoccum asexual morph: Conidiophores 20–40 × 3–4.5 μm, hyaline, subcylindrical, 1–3 septate, smooth, branched, formed from the inner layer of the locule, intermingled with hyaline, septate paraphyses. Conidiogenous cells 20–30 × 2.5−3.5 μm enteroblastic, Momelotinib price phialidic, hyaline, cylindrical, click here discrete or intergrated, smooth. Conidia (20-)22−25(−30) × (4.5-)5−6 μm, hyaline, aseptate, clavate, smooth, thin-walled, widest in the middle or upper third of the conidium, apex subobtuse, base
truncate. The microconidial state occurs in the same or in separate conidiomata to the Fusicoccum asexual morph. Microconidiophores 15–25 × 2–3 μm, hyaline, cylindrical, 1–3 septate, smooth, branched. Microconidiogenous cells 6–10 × 2−3 μm, phialidic, hyaline, cylindrical, smooth, discrete or integrated. Microconidia (7-)8−11(−14) × 2.5−3.5 μm brown, aseptate, subcylindrical to narrowly ellipsoid with rounded ends, thick-walled, finely verruculose, guttulate. The spermatial state occurs in conidiomata with the Fusicoccum asexual morph, or in separate
spermatogomia. Spermatiophores 15–20 × 3–4 μm, hyaline, cylindrical, 1–3 septate, smooth, branched. Spermatiogenous cells 10–12 × 2–3 μm, hyaline, cylindrical, discrete or integrated. Spermatia 5–7 × 1.5−2 μm, hyaline, aseptate, rod-shape with rounded ends, smooth. Material examined: SOUTH AFRICA, Western Cape Province, Klapmuts, Selleckchem LY2874455 on dead leaves of Protea repens (as P. mellifera), 5 June,
1997, P. Van Der Bijl. No. 357 (PREM 32915, holotype). Sivanesania W.H. Hsieh & Chi Y. Chen, Mycol. Res. 100: 1106 (1996) MycoBank: MB26498 Pathogenic on stems and petioles of Rubi kawakamii. Ascostromata immersed, erumpent, becoming superficial, scattered, multilocular, subcuticular to subepidermal, pulvinate, cells of ascostromata of brown-walled cell of textura globulosa to angularis. Locules numerous, globose to compressed, forming in a single layer. Ostioles inconspicuous. Peridium composed of dark brown cells. Pseudoparaphyses Aurora Kinase hyphae-like, septate, branched. Asci 8–spored, bitunicate, fissitunicate, clavate, short pedicellate, apically rounded and thickened, with an inconspicuous ocular chamber. Ascospores hyaline to brown when old, ovoid, with a hyaline, filiform, simple appendage. Asexual state not established. Notes: Sivanesania was introduced as a monotypic genus by Hsieh and Chen (1994) based on Sivanesania rubi W.H. Hsieh & Chi Y. Chen which is pathogenic on stems and petioles of Rubi kawakamii. The morphological characters of the fungus such as immersed, erumpent, multilocular ascostromata, hyaline, septate pseudoparaphyses and hyaline to brown, aseptate ascospores with an appendage fit well with Botryosphaeriaceae.