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Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Triebel D. Data set reviewer(s): Triebel D. (98-01-01); revised; to be published after submission.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: basionymous or accepted. Taxonomic rank: genus. Number of known taxa within this rank: 6. Plowrightia. Dothioraceae Theiss & H. Syd. (1917); Dothideales.

Taxonomic Literature: Arx J.A. & Müller E., Stud. Mycol. 9: 1-159 [10-11] (1975); Barr M.E., Contr. Univ. Michigan Herb. 9: 523-638 [576-577] (1972) - sub Dothiora ribesia; Loeffler W., Phytopathol. Z. 30: 349-386 [358-374] (1957) - sub Dothidea ribesia, D. mezerei, D. berberidis, D. insculpta, D. hippophaeos, D. muelleri; Vouaux L., Bull. Trimestriel Soc. Mycol. France 28: 177-256 [194-195] (1912).

Ecology: Biotroph or saprobic; lichenicolous or phytopathogenic (weakly); terricolous or corticolous; substrate non-calciferous or calciferous.

Medulla: Iodine reaction not different with or without KOH pre-treatment (euamyloid).

Reproduction Strategy: Only known as sterile, asexually reproducing form or with sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Perithecioid, orbicular, linear, or irregular, not emerging, becoming adnate, stromatic. Margin: Indistinct; external filaments absent. Exciple: Black or brown. Periphyses: Absent. Hymenium: Iodine reaction: hemiamyloid. Interascal Hyphae: Absent. Hypothecium: Black, brown, or olive.

Ascospores: c. 4 to 16-32 per ascus, ellipsoid, oblong, curved, or ovoid, 12-35 µm long, 4.5-14 µm wide, obtuse or aciculate; septa absent or present; transversally septate, 1-5-transversally septate; wall not thickened at the septum, hyaline, pale brown, or dark brown, in Lugol's Solution negative.

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