**7. Bamboo ascomycetes: tissue specificity**

It is reported that most fungi grow on bamboo culms (514 fungal species) and leaves and only few recorded species from shoots, roots, or inflorescences [3]. An update of bamboo tissue types with their fungal species number is shown in **Figure 13** and according to which 665 fungal species have been collected from bamboo culms and 216 species were recorded from leaves, followed by sheaths (19 species) and branches (14 species). It is unknown whether fungi are tissue specific or are simply recurrent on certain bamboo tissues [3]. Most bamboo pathogens affect leaves, although a large number of ascomycetes (e.g., *Roussoella* spp. and *Astrosphaeriella* spp.) have been reported on decaying culms or branches.

**Figure 13.** Bamboo ascomycetes: distribution by tissue types until 2017.
