Fungalpedia – Note 1280, Aphanotria
Aphanotria. Döbbeler, Mycologia 102(2): 405 (2010).
Hypocreomycetidae, Hypocreales, Bionectriaceae, Aphanotria
Index Fungorum number: IF 510591; Facesoffungi number: FoF 10857; 1 morphological species
Bryophilous, parasitic on Polytrichadelphus aristatus. Sexual morph: Ascomata perithecial, astromatic, immersed, ellipsoid, hyaline, glabrous, terminating in a rostrum outside the host. Rostrum cylindrical or slightly tapering towards the apex, hyaline. Excipulum and rostrum composed of longitudinally oriented hyphae, KOH-. Apical paraphyses inconspicuous, filamentous, cylindrical, septate. Asci 8-spored, unitunicate, cylindrical, straight or slightly curved, apically rounded, without an apical ring. Ascospores uniseriate, fusiform, symmetrical, 5-septate, not constricted at the septa, guttualte, hyaline, epispore distinctly warted, cyanophilous. Asexual morph: Undetermined (copied from Perera et al. 2023).
Type species: Aphanotria paradoxa Döbbeler, Mycol. Res. 111(12): 1408 (2007)
Notes: Döbbeler (2007) introduced the monotypic genus Aphanotria to accommodate Aphanotria paradoxa collected from Polytrichadelphus aristatus. Aphanotria is unique in its bryophilous habitat and formation of astromatic, hyaline, KOH- ascomata, immersed with a conspicuous rostrum resembles Bionectriaceae (Döbbeler 2007). No DNA sequence data are available for the genus and the placement of the genus needs verifying. (copied from Perera et al. 2023).