Original paper
The freshwater Ascomycetes
Shearer, C.A.
Nova Hedwigia Band 56 Heft 1-2 (1993), p. 1 - 33
132 references
published: Feb 2, 1993
DOI: 10.1127/nova.hedwigia/56/1993/1
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Abstract
The freshwater Ascomycetes (exclusive of yeasts and lichenized forms) are a taxonomically diverse assemblage of species with representatives in the Plectomycetes, Discomycetes, Pyrenomycetes, and Loculoascomycetes. Over 200 species have been reported from freshwater habitats in association with aquatic and wetland macrophytes and/or as saprophytes of autochthonous and allochthonous plant debris. Various degrees of morphological adaptation to aquatic habitats are represented, ranging from adaptation of both teleomorph and anamorph, teleomorph alone, or anamorph alone. Numerous species show no obvious morphological adaptations at all. Definition, study techniques, systematics, geographical distribution, ecology, and evolution of the freshwater Ascomycetes are discussed.
Keywords
fungus • freshwater ascomycete