Fungalpedia – Note 1146, Albertiniella

 

Albertiniella Kirschst.

Citation when using this data: Hyde KD et al. 2020 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

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Classification: Cephalothecaceae, Cephalothecales, Sordariomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Albertiniella was introduced by Kirschstein (1936) to accommodate a fungus developing ascomata on rotting Polyporus applanatus. It is characterized by globose, black, glabrous, carbonaceous cleistothecium, subglobose to globose asci and ovate to globose, aseptate, hyaline to yellowish ascospores.

Type species: Albertiniella reticulata Kirschst., Annls mycol. 34(3): 183 (1936).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Albertiniella.

 

References

Kirschstein W. 1936 – Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Ascomyceten und ihrer Nebenformen besonders aus der Mark Brandenburg und dem Bayerischen Walde. Annales Mycologici 34, 180–210.

 

Entry by

Kevin David Hyde, Institute of Plant Health, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Haizhu District, Guangzhou 510225, P.R. China, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, 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, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China, School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, World Agroforestry Centre, East and Central Asia, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China

 

Published online 28 February 2020

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