Fungalpedia – Note 2112, Achaetobotrys

 

Achaetobotrys Bat. & Cif.

Citation when using this data: Hongsanan S et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

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Classification: Antennulariellaceae, Capnodiales, Dothideomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Notes: The genus has obovoid to broadly ellipsoidal ascostromata, lacking hyphal appendages (Hyde et al. 2013), multi-septate ascospores (based on isotype specimen of Achaetobotrys affinis in Chomnunti et al. 2014).

Type species: Achaetobotrys affinis (L.R. Fraser) Bat. & Cif., Saccardoa 2: 49 (1963).

≡ Henningsomyces affinis L.R. Fraser, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 60(3-4): 172 (1935).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Achaetobotrys.

 

References

Chomnunti P, Hongsanan S, Aguirre-Hudson B, Tian Q et al. 2014 – The sooty moulds. Fungal Diversity 66, 1–36.

Hyde KD, Jones EBG, Liu J-K, Ariyawansa H et al. 2013 – Families of Dothideomycetes. Fungal Diversity 63, 1–313.

 

Entry by

Sinang Hongsanan, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for Plant Epigenetics, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Microbial Genetic Engineering, College of Life Science and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, People’s Republic of China, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50002, Thailand 

 

Published online 25 March 2026

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