Fungalpedia – Note 639, Antennulariella
Antennulariella Woron.
Citation when using this data: D. S. Marasinghe et al. 2023 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank.
Classification: Antennulariellaceae, Capnodiales, Dothideomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Colonies epiphyllous on leaves, twigs or insects’ exudates. Superficial mycelium dark brown to brown, cylindrical or “tube”-like, septate, constricted at the septum, darkened at the septum, smooth or roughened-walls, narrow at end cell. Sexual morph: Ascomata globose to subglobose, dark brown to black, ostiolate, developing on mycelium, smooth or roughened walls, sessile, with a robust stalk, with long, cylindrical, hyphal appendages. Peridium thin-walled, cells brown to pale brown, of textura angularis. Hamathecium lacking pseudoparaphyses. Asci 8-spored, bitunicate, ellipsoid to cylindrical, with short pedicel. Ascospores overlapping, 1–3-seriate, clavate, 1-septum, 2-layered, slightly constricted at septum, upper cell shorter and wider lower cell, hyaline, smooth-walled to verrucose. Asexual morph: Pycnidia small globose to obovoid, intercalary, lateral or terminal on the upright hyphae or their branches, meristogenous in development, composed of pseudoparenchymatous wall. Ostiole absent, or not well-developed, mostly releasing conidia by means of irregular rupture. Conidia hyaline, aseptate, globose to subglobose, with guttules, smooth and thin-walled (Hughes 1976; Cheewangkoon et al. 2009; Hyde et al. 2013; Hongsanan et al. 2020b).
Notes: Antennulariella was established by Woronichin (1915) with its asexual morph of Antennariella. Capnodendron and Antennariella are considered as synanamorphs of this genus (Hughes 1976) and were later synonymized under Antennulariella (Hyde et al. 2013). von Arx and Muller (1975) considered Antennulariella, as a synonym of Wentiomyces which was placed in Pseudoperisporiaceae. The asexual morph of Antennariella has small and dark brown, ostiolate, sub globose to obovoid pycnidia with a smooth or roughened pseudoparenchymatous wall and minute, hyaline, ellipsoidal, aseptate conidia (Cheewangkoon et al. 2009; Hyde et al. 2013).
= Capnociferria Batista in Batista and Ciferri (1963b).
= Capnocrinum Bat. & Cif. (1963a).
Type species: Antennulariella fuliginosa Woron., Trudy Byuro Prikl. Bot. 8: 771 (1915).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum Capnocrinum search Antennulariella.
References
Batista AC, Ciferri R 1963b – The sooty-molds of the family Asbolisiaceae. Quaderno. Laboratorio Crittogamico, Istituto Botanico Della Università Di Pavia 31:23–229.
Hughes SJ 1976 – Sooty moulds. Mycologia 68:693–820.
Hyde KD, Jones EBG, Liu JK et al 2013 – Families of Dothideomycetes. Fungal Divers 63:1–313.
Woronichin NN 1915 – Les fumagines de Sotschi. Trudy Byuro po Prikladnoj Botanik 8:769–807.
Entry by
Diana Sandamali Marasinghe, 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, Mushroom Research Foundation, 128 M.3 Ban Pa Deng T. Pa Pae, A. Mae Taeng, Chiang Mai, 50150, Thailand
Published online 29 August 2023