Phylum：Ascomycota　>>　Class： Ascomycetes　>>　 Order： Phyllachorales 
   
 
　BCRC Number： NO BCRC Number!  
   
　Scientific Name： Ophiodothella cyclobalanopsidis
 
   
   
　Author：

Ophiodothella cyclobalanopsidis W. H. Hsieh et al., Mycol. Res. 102: 229-230.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Ascomata 300-350 μm wide, 300-400 μm high, subglobose, single, immersed, subepidermal, scattered, ostiolate. Ostiole central, clypeate, periphysate, erumpent through the epidermis. Clypeus up to 500 μm long and 60 μm wide, black. Peridium up to 40 μm wide, composed of elongated, compressed, thin-walled pseudoparenchymatous cells forming a textura angularis and fusing with the clypeus. Paraphyses up to 2 μm wide, hyaline, filamentous, unbranched, aseptate, mucose. Asci 150-175 × 5-7 μm, cylindrical, unitunicate, thin-walled, 8-spored, short-stalked, without any apical ring. Ascospores 150-170 × 1.2-2.5 μm, filamentous, hyaline, aseptate, lacking sheaths.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, 23 Sept. 1994, holotype C. Y. Chen A 26, IMI (371133)and isotype NCHUPP-2314.
 
 
 
　Habitat： Parasitic on the leaf of Cyclobalanopsidis sp.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Taiwan.
 
 
 
　References：

Hanlin, RT et al. 1992; Pearce, CA and Hyde, KD. 1993; Swart, HJ. 1982.
   
   
   
　Provided：

W. H. Hsieh
 
 
　Note： Ophiodothella syzigii Pearce ＆ Hyde(1993) is the only species close to O. cyclobalanopsidis with 112-166 × 2.5-4 μm ascospores but the ascospores in this species are inflate at the rounded ends and have nipple-like mucilaginous sheaths at their ends. Hanlin & Skarshaug (1992) have provided a key to and descriptions of twenty six species assigned to Ophiodothella and O. longispora Swart (1982) is the only species with longer ascospores (150-200 × 4-6 μm). This species has amyloid asci and much longer and broader ascospores.