''Fuscosporella'' is a genus of terrestrial and freshwater

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in the family '' Fuscosporellaceae'' and within the monotypic order of Fuscosporellales.

Etymology

The word ''Fuscosporella'' is derived from the

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word ''-fusco'', meaning dark and the

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word ''spore'' meaning “seed, sowing”.

History

''Fuscosporella'' was originally established as a monotypic genus for ''Fuscosporella pyriformis'' , and it is the type genus of Fuscosporellaceae (Yang et al. 2016). ''Fuscosporella pyriformis'' is morphologically similar to ''Parafuscosprella moniliformis'' and ''Parafuscosprella mucosa'' , as they share characters such as uniseptate (having a single cell wall), dark brown, obvoid (egg-shaped and solid, with the narrow end at the base) to obpyriform (shaped like that of a pear, with the base at the narrower end)

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of similar size, and

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(glassy/transparent), vesicular (bladder-like sac) conidiogenous cells. ''Parafuscosporella garethii'' is significantly different from the species in its obpyramidal conidia, which are coronate at the apex with unusual conical projections (Boonyuen et al. 2016). However, molecular evidence later gave a precise classification.

Species

3 species are accepted by

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; *'' Fuscosporella aquatica'' *'' Fuscosporella atrobrunnea'' *'' Fuscosporella pyriformis'' ''Fuscosporella xingyiensis'' was published in 2022, but not yet fully accepted.

Distribution

It has been only found in a few places worldwide, such as; off the coast of south America, in central Asia, in Thailand and China. Species in ''Fuscosporella'' and ''Mucispora'' are reported from freshwater habitats in Thailand and China,

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q119104251 Sordariomycetes genera Taxa described in 2016