Fungalpedia – Note 516, Andamanomyces
Andamanomyces Hosag.
Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomata.
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Classification: Incertae sedis, Asterinales, Dothideomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi.
Hosagoudar et al. (2014) introduced Andamanomyces as a monotypic genus within Asterinales, Dothideomycetidae in Dothideomycetes with the type species Andamanomyces fragariae. Andamanomyces characterized by brown, septate, appressoriate, ectophytic, branched mycelium, solitary but mostly in couplets, unicellular appressoria, ellipsoidal with central vertical suture formed by dissolving or splitting, oval thyriothecia, 8–spored, bitunicate, globose asci, oblong, uniseptate, conglobate, constricted at the septum ascospores. Andamanomyces can be distinguished by having elliptical thyriothecia with central vertical sutures with Asterolibertia and Cirsosia (Arnaud 1918). Only one species has been accepted, and this genus is the remaining monotypic genus.
Type species: Andamanomyces fragariae Hosag.
Other accepted species: This genus is monotypic.
Figure 1 – Morphology of Andamanomyces fragariae. a Thyriothecium and appressoriate mycelium. b Appressoriate mycelium. c Ascus. d Ascospores. Scale bars: a = 15 μm, b = 9 μm, c = 6 μm, d = 7 μm. Redrawn from Hosagoudar et al. (2014).
References
Entry by
Zhang X, Excellence Center of Microbial Diversity and Sustainable Utilization, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand; Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, Yunnan 655011, China
(Edited by Saowaluck Tibpromma, Samaneh Chaharmiri-Dokhaharani, & Achala R. Rathnayaka)
Published online 9 December 2024