Melanospora zamiae Corda., Icon. fung. (Prague) 1: 24. 1837. Fig. 4C, E

= Melanospora leucotricha Corda, Icon. fung. (Prague) 1: 25. 1837.

= Melanospora coemansii Westend., Bull. Acad. R. Sci. Belg., Cl. Sci., sér . 2 2: 579. 1857.

= Melanospora cirrhata Berk. in Cooke, Grevillea 16: 102. 1888.

= Melanospora globosa Berl., Malpighia 5: 409. 1891.

= Melanospora pampeana Speg., Anal. Mus. nac. Hist. nat. B. Aires 6: 287. 1898.

= Melanospora townei Griffiths, Bull. Torrey bot. Club 26: 434. 1899.

= Melanospora rhizophila Peglion & Sacc., Annls mycol. 11: 16. 1913.

= Melanospora mattiroloana Mirande [as ‘mattiroliana’], Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 32: 72. 1916.

= Melanospora schmidtii Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 24: 650. 1926.

= Melanospora asclepiadis Zerova, J. Inst. Bot. Acad. Sci. Ukraine 12: 155. 1937.

Notes.

Melanospora zamiae is characterized by the production of ellipsoidal to citriform, smooth-walled ascospores with a depressed germ pore at each end. Doguet (1955) described the presence of bulbils; however, later studies did not mention the presence of such sort of propagules (Calviello 1973, Cannon and Hawksworth 1982), which rarely occur in the genus.