Fungalpedia – Note 555, Carrismyces

 

Carrismyces R.F. Castañeda & Heredia 

Citation when using this data: Zhang et al. 2025 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1

Classification: Incertae sedis, Incertae sedis, Incertae sedis, Incertae sedis, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

The hyphomycetous genus Carrismyces was introduced by Castañeda Ruiz and Heredia (2000) and placed in Ascomycota genera incertae sedis (Wijayawardene et al. 2022; Hyde et al. 2024). Carrismyces is monotypic, containing the single species Carrismyces proliferates, collected on rotten stem of a tree fern (Cyathea sp.) in a Mexican cloud forest (Castañeda Ruiz and Heredia 2000). The genus is characterized by mononematous or fasciculate, smooth or verrucose, brown to black conidiophores with adventitious hyphaearising towards the base, monotretic, integrated, per current conidiogenous cells with thickened walls around the pore, and obconical to subglobose to pyriform to turbinate, muriform (dictyoseptate), dark brown or black conidia often with corniform to conical, hyaline appendages (Castañeda Ruiz and Heredia 2000). Carrismyces resembles Hughesinia in the obconical conidia but differs in having dictyoseptate conidia and adventitious hyphae at the base of conidiophores (Delgado et al. 2005; Heredia et al. 2012). No molecular date is available for this genus. Therefore, collections and isolation, with DNA sequence data are needed to achieve a natural classification and verify the host-preference of pteridophytes in this genus.

Type species: Carrismyces proliferatus R.F. Castañeda & Heredia.

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Carrismyces.

 

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Figure 1 – Carrismyces proliferates. a Conidiophores, conidiogenous cells and conidia of Carrismyces proliferates. Redrawn from Castañeda Ruiz and Heredia (2000).

 

References

Castañeda Ruiz R, Heredia G 2000 – Carrismyces, a new genus of hyphomycetes from a cloud forest in Mexico. Mycotax 76:125–130.

Delgado G, Mena-Portales J, Gené J, Guarro J 2005 – New species of Cryptophialoidea and Hughesinia (hyphomycetes, anamorphic fungi) from Cuba. Fungal Divers 20:31–38.

Heredia G, Arias-Mota RM, Castañeda-Ruiz RF, Gamboa-Angulo M 2012 – New species of Hughesinia and Stachybotryna and new records of anamorphic fungi from the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Mycol Progr 11:927–935.

Hyde KD, Baldrian P, Chen Y, Thilini Chethana KW, De Hoog S, Doilom M, de Farias AR, Goncalves MF, Gonkhom D, Gui H, Hilário S 2024a – Current trends, limitations and future research in the fungi? Fungal Diversity 125:1–71.

Wijayawardene NN, Hyde KD, Dai DQ, Sánchez-García M, Goto BT, Saxena R, Erdoğdu M, Selçuk F, Rajeshkumar KC, Aptroot A, Błaszkowski J, Boonyuen N, da Silva GA, de Souza FA, Dong W, Ertz D, Haelewaters D, Jones EBG, Karunarathna SC, Kirk PM, Kukwa M, Kumla J, Leontyev DV, Lumbsch HT, Maharach chikumbura SSN, Marguno F, Martínez-Rodríguez P, Mešić A, Monteiro JS, Oehl F, Pawłowska J, Pem D, Pfliegler WP, Phil lips AJL, Pošta A, He MQ, Li JX, Raza M, Sruthi OP, Suetrong S, Suwannarach N, Tedersoo L, Thiyagaraja V, Tibpromma S, Tkalčec Z, Tokarev YS, Wanasinghe DN, Wijesundara DSA, Wimalaseana SDMK, Madrid H, Zhang GQ, Gao Y, Sánchez Castro I, Tang LZ, Stadler M, Yurkov A, Thines M 2022 – Out line of Fungi and fungus-like taxa—2021. Mycosphere 13:53–453.

 

Entry by 

Jing-Yi Zhang, School of Food and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Guizhou Institute of Technology, Guiyang, 550025, People’s Republic of 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, Guizhou Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guiyang, 550009, People’s Republic of China.

 

Published online 11 June 2025

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