Fungalpedia – Note 2350, Appendispora

 

Appendispora. K.D. Hyde.

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

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

 

Notes – Hyde (1994a) introduced a monotypic genus Appendispora to accommodate
A. frondicola which was collected from dead rachis of Oncosperma horridum in Brunei. The genus is characterized by subglobose or irregularly, multi-loculate ascostromata, immersed in darkened pseudoclypeus, with minute ostiolar canel, cracked through host surface, 8-spored, fissitunicate, cylindrical, pedunculate, fissitunicate, with an ocular chamber and faint ring, embedded in hyaline, trabeculate pseudoparaphyses and brown, fusiform, 1-septate ascospores, with an irregular ridged ornamentation and narrow appendages at each end (Hyde 1994a, Ariyawansa et al. 2014b). Hyde (1994a) treated the genus in Didymosphaeriaceae and this was followed from many subsequent authors (Lumbsch & Huhndorf 2010, Zhang et al. 2012b, Hyde et al. 2013). Ariyawansa et al. (2014) re-circumscribed the genus and treated Appendispora in Roussoellaceae due to its morphological characteristics fits well with the familial concept of Roussoellaceae. Many subsequent authors followed Ariyawansa et al. (2014b)’s treatment (Dai et al. 2017, Wijayawardene et al. 2017a, 2018, 2020, Jiang et al. 2019). However, phylogenetic affinity of the genus is unresolved due to the lack of molecular data for the generic type.

 

Type species: Appendispora frondicola K.D. Hyde, Sydowia 46(1): 30 (1994).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Appendispora.

 

References

Ariyawansa HA, Camporesi E, Thambugala KM, Mapook A et al. 2014b – Confusion surrounding Didymosphaeria–phylogenetic and morphological evidence suggest Didymosphaeriaceae is not a distinct family. Phytotaxa 176, 102–119.

Ariyawansa HA, Camporesi E, Thambugala KM, Mapook A et al. 2014b – Confusion surrounding Didymosphaeria–phylogenetic and morphological evidence suggest Didymosphaeriaceae is not a distinct family. Phytotaxa 176, 102–119.

Dai DQ, Phookamsak R, Wijayawardene NN, Li WJ et al. 2017 – Bambusicolous fungi. Fungal Diversity 82, 1–105.

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

Hyde KD. 1994a – Fungi from palms. XI. Appendispora frondicola gen. et sp. nov. from Oncosperma horridum in Brunei. Sydowia 46, 29–34.

Jiang HB, Hyde KD, Jayawardena RS, Doilom M et al. 2019 – Taxonomic and phylogenetic characterizations reveal two new species and two new records of Roussoella (Roussoellaceae, Pleosporales) from Yunnan, China. Mycological Progress 18, 577–591.

Lumbsch HT, Huhndorf SM. 2010 – Outline of Ascomycota 2009. Myconet 14, 1–64.

Wijayawardene NN, Hyde KD, Al-Ani LKT, Tedersoo L et al. 2020 – Outline of Fungi and fungi-like taxa. Mycosphere 11, 1060–1456.

Wijayawardene NN, Hyde KD, Lumbsch HT, Liu JK et al. 2018 – Outline of Ascomycota: 2017. Fungal Diversity 88, 167–263.

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

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

Zhang Y, Crous PW, Schoch CL, Hyde KD. 2012b – Pleosporales. Fungal Diversity 53, 1–221.

 

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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