Fungalpedia – Note 2159, Astrosphaeriella

 

Astrosphaeriella. Syd. & P. Syd.

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

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

 

Notes – Astrosphaeriella was introduced by Sydow & Sydow (1913a), with Astrosphaeriella fusispora as the type. Astrosphaeriella is a common genus on bamboos, palms and stout grasses (Barr 1990a, Zhou et al. 2003, Tanaka & Harada 2005a, Hu 2010, Liu et al. 2011, Zhang et al. 2012b, Phookamsak et al. 2015b). The morphology of Astrosphaeriella has been well-studied, but the asexual morph of the genus was rarely established until Phookamsak et al. (2015b) described the holomorph of Astrosphaeriella bambusae and confirmed that Astrosphaeriella has coelomycetous asexual morph as mentioned in Tanaka & Harada (2005a). For morphology of type species see Phookamsak et al. (2015b).

 

Type species: Astrosphaeriella fusispora Syd. & P. Syd.

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Astrosphaeriella.

 

References

Barr ME. 1990a – Melanommatales (Loculoascomycetes). North American Flora 13(II), 1–129.

Hu DM, Cai L, Chen H, Bahkali AH, Hyde KD. 2010 – Four new freshwater fungi associated with submerged wood from Southwest Asia. Sydowia 62, 191–203.

Liu D. 2011 – Piedraiain molecular detection of human fungal pathogens. CPC press, pp 958

Phookamsak R, Norphanphoun C, Tanaka K, Dai DQ et al. 2015b – Towards a natural classification of Astrosphaeriella-like species; introducing Astrosphaeriellaceae and Pseudoastrosphaeriellaceae fam. nov. and Astrosphaeriellopsis, gen. nov. Fungal Diversity 74, 143–197.

Sydow H, Sydow P. 1913a – Novae fungorum species X. Annales Mycologici 11, 254–271.

Tanaka K, Harada Y. 2005a – Bambusicolous fungi in Japan (4): a new combination, Astrosphaeriella aggregata. Mycoscience 46, 114–118.

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

Zhou DQ, Cai L, Hyde KD. 2003 – Astrosphaeriella and Roussoella species on bamboo from Hong Kong and Yunnan, China, including a new species of Roussoella. Cryptogamie Mycologie 24, 191–197.

 

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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