Fungalpedia – Note 2347, Alpinaria

 

Alpinaria. Jaklitsch & Voglmayr.

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

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Classification: Melanommataceae, Pleosporales, Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

 

Notes – Alpinaria was introduced to accommodate Cucurbitaria rhododendri which was introduced by Niessl (1872). Initially. C. rhododendri was transferred to Melanomma as Melanomma rhododendri (Rehm 1881, Holm 1968). Jaklitsch & Voglmayr (2017) epitypified
C. rhododendri and established the new genus referring to its alpine habitat. Alpinaria is characterized by erumpent, globose, black ascomata with papillate ostiole, septate paraphyses, cylindrical asci and ellipsoid to fusoid, brown, 3-euseptate ascospores. Phylogenetically, Jaklitsch & Voglmayr (2017) first provided the sequence of A. rhododendri and it clustered in Melanommataceae with strong bootstrap support.

 

Type species: Alpinaria rhododendri (Niessl) Jaklitsch & Voglmayr, Sydowia 69: 84 (2017)

≡ Cucurbitaria rhododendri Niessl, Verh. nat. Ver. Brünn 10: 202 (1872).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Alpinaria.

 

References

Holm L. 1968 – Taxonomical notes on ascomycetes VI. On the genus Gibberidea Fuck. and some alleged relatives. Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift 62, 217–242.

Jaklitsch WM, Voglmayr H. 2017 – Three former taxa of Cucurbitaria and considerations on Petrakia in the Melanommataceae. Sydowia 69, 81–95.

Niessl G. 1872 – Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Pilze. Beschreibung neuer und wenig bekannter Pilze. Verh Naturf Vereins Brünn 10, 153–217.

Rehm HJ. 1881 – Ascomyceten in getrockneten Exemplaren herausgegeben. Bericht des Naturhistorischen Vereins in Augsburg 26, 1–132.

 

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 17 April 2026

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