Fungalpedia – Note 2053, Anteagloniaceae

 

Anteagloniaceae. K.D. Hyde, Jian K. Liu & A. Mapook.

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

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

 

Saprobic on dead wood. Sexual morph: Ascomata hysterothecial, superficial or sunken in substrate, scattered to aggregated, oval to elongate, or globose to subglobose, black, carbonaceous, straight or curved, rarely branched, without subiculum. Ostiole central, slit-like. Peridium dark brown, thick, comprising a single stratum of dark brown cells of textura epidermoidea. Hamathecium comprising cylindrical to filiform, cellular or trabeculate pseudoparaphyses, embedded in a gelatinous matrix. Asci 8-spored, bitunicate, fissitunicate, elongate cylindric-clavate, straight or slightly curved, short-pedicellate, apically rounded, with an ocular chamber. Ascospores 1-seriate, very small, ellipsoidal, hyaline, 1-septate, constricted at septa, widest in the middle and tapering towards the narrow ends, straight, smooth-walled. Asexual morph: Coelomycetous or hyphomycetous.

Notes – Anteagloniaceae was established by Hyde et al. (2013). Two genera, Anteaglonium and Flammeascoma are accepted in this family (Mugambi & Huhndorf 2009b, Liu et al. 2015) containing eight and two species, respectively (Liu et al. 2015, Wijayawardene et al. 2017a, Jaklitsch et al. 2018b). Though hysterothecoid ascomata are found in Anteagloniaceae, they are characteristically different from the genera of Hysteriaceae in having small hysteriothecial ascostromata and small ascospores. Molecular data also revealed that it forms a distinct clade within the Pleosporales. All the species of Anteagloniaceae were supported by morphological and molecular data for their placement in this family (Mugambi & Huhndorf 2009b, Liu et al. 2015, Jayasiri et al. 2016, Jaklitsch et al. 2018b). The family also indicates a parallel evolution of hysterothecial ascomata in Dothideomycetes (Mugambi & Huhndorf 2009a, b).

 

Type genus: Anteaglonium Mugambi & Huhndorf

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Anteagloniaceae.

 

References

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

Jaklitsch WM, Fournier J, Voglmayr H. 2018b – Two unusual new species of Pleosporales: Anteaglonium rubescens and Atrocalyx asturiensis. Sydowia 70, 129–140.

Jaklitsch WM, Voglmayr H. 2016 – Hidden diversity in Thyridaria and a new circumscription of the Thyridariaceae. Studies in Mycology 85, 35–64.

Liu JK, Hyde KD, Jones EBG, Ariyawansa HA et al. 2015 – Fungal diversity notes 1–110: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to fungal species. Fungal Diversity 72, 1–197.

Mugambi GK, Huhndorf SM. 2009a – Molecular phylogenetics of Pleosporales: Melanommataceae and Lophiostomataceae recircumscribed (Plesporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Ascomycota). Studies in Mycology 64, 103–121.

Mugambi GK, Huhndorf SM. 2009b – Parallel evolution of hysterothecial ascomata in ascolocularous fungi (Ascomycota, Fungi). Systematics and Biodiversity 7, 453–464.

Wijayawardene NN, Hyde KD, Rajeshkumar KC, Hawksworth DL et al. 2017a – Notes for genera: Ascomycota. Fungal Diversity 86, 1–594.

 

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 23 March 2026

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