Fungalpedia – Note 2158, Ascocylindrica

 

Ascocylindrica. Abdel-Wahab, Bahkali & E.B.G. Jones.

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

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1

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

 

Notes – Ascocylindrica marina forms a monophyletic genus in Pleosporales (Ariyawansa et al. 2015a). It shares similar morphology with Halokirschsteiniothelia maritima in having small ascomata and 1-septate brown ascospores.However, the latter taxon has subconical ascomata with a flattened base, clavate to oblong longer ellipsoidal asci, and smooth ascospores with a submedian septum. Based on multi-gene phylogenetic analyses, H. maritima was referred to Mytilinidiaceae (Suetrong et al. 2009, Boonmee et al. 2012, Jones et al. 2019a).

 

Type species: Ascocylindrica marina Abdel-Wahab,Bahkali&E.B.G.Jones.

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Ascocylindrica.

 

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Figure 1 – Ascocylindrica marina (MFLU 15-1507, holotype). a Herbarium details. b Ascomata on the substrate. c Pseudoparaphyses. d Vertical section of the ascoma. e–g Asci. h Peridium. i Ascospores. Scale bars: b 1000 μm, d–g 20 μm, h 10 μm, c 5 μm.

 

References

Ariyawansa HA, Hyde KD, Jayasiri SC, Buyck B et al. 2015a – Fungal diversity notes 111–252—taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to fungal taxa. Fungal Diversity 75, 27–274.

Boonmee S, Ko-Ko TW, Chukeatirote E, Hyde KD et al. 2012 – Two new Kirschsteiniothelia species with Dendryphiopsis anamorphs cluster in Kirschsteiniotheliaceae fam. nov. Mycologia 104, 698–714.

Jones E, Devadatha B, Abdel-Wahab M, Dayarathne MC et al. 2019a – Phylogeny of new marine Dothideomycetes and Sordariomycetes from mangroves and deep-sea sediments. Botanica Marina 1–28.

Suetrong S, Schoch CL, Spatafora JW, Kohlmeyer J et al. 2009 – Molecular systematics of the marine Dothideomycetes. Studies in Mycology 64, 155–173.

 

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 8 April 2026

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