Fungalpedia – Note 465, Helvellosebacina

 

Helvellosebacina Oberw., Garnica & K. Riess

Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Macrofungi.

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Classification: Sebacinaceae, Sebacinales, Incertae sedis, Agaricomycetes, Agaricomycotina, Basidiomycota, Fungi.

Based on morphological and molecular analyses, Oberwinkler et al. (2014) combined Sebacina concrescens and S. helvelloides into a new genus Helvellosebacina, named H. concrescens and H. helvelloides (type species), respectively. Helvellosebacina has resupinate to upright merulioid-helvelloid basidiomata and simple to sparingly ramified dikaryophyses (Oberwinkler et al. 2014). Later, the new species H. granulate was introduced by Sesli (2021) from the Euro-Siberian phytogeographical region of the eastern Black Sea in Turkey, but is most probably also present in Estonia. Therefore, Helvellosebacina only comprises three species H. concrescens, H. helvelloides and H. granulate (Oberwinkler et al. 2014Sesli 2021). Helvellosebacina species have been found to grow solitary or gregarious deciduous woods and are distributed in a wide variety of plant species (Sesli 2021).

Type species: Helvellosebacina helvelloides (Schwein.) Oberw., Garnica & K. Riess

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Helvellosebacina

 

 

Figure 1 – Morphology of Helvellosebacina. a Basidia and dikaryophyses. b Basidiospores. Scale bars: a, b = 10 μm. Redrawn from Sesli (2021).

 

References

Oberwinkler F, Riess K, Bauer R, Garnica S. 2014 – Morphology and molecules: the Sebacinales, a case study. Mycological Progress, 13, 445–470.

Sesli E. 2021 – Helvellosebacina granulata sp. nov.(Basidiomycota: Sebacinaceae) from the East Black Sea Region of Turkey. Nordic Journal of Botany, 39(6).

 

Entry by

Lu L, Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, Yunnan 655011, China; Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand; School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand.

 

(Edited by Saowaluck Tibpromma, Samaneh Chaharmiri-Dokhaharani, & Achala R. Rathnayaka)

 

Published online 3 December 2024