Magnaporthiopsis Explained

Magnaporthiopsis is a genus of ascomycete fungi. It has three species.

Morphology

Magnaporthiopsis is characterised by black and globose perithecia with a cylindrical neck, a double-layered perithecial wall, clavate asci with a refractive apical ring, fusiform to fusoid and septate ascospores, simple hyphopodia, and anamorph similar to Phialophora.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Luo. J. Zhang, N. Magnaporthiopsis, a new genus in Magnaporthaceae (Ascomycota).. Mycologia. 28 February 2013. 23449077. 10.3852/12-359. 105. 4. 1019–29.