Fungalpedia – Note 2160, Astrosphaeriellopsis

 

Astrosphaeriellopsis. Phookamsak, Jian K. Liu & K.D. Hyde.

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

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

 

Notes – Astrosphaeriellopsis was introduced by Phookamsak et al. (2015b) to accommodate Astrosphaeriella bakeriana which formed a single clade and separated from Astrosphaeriellaceae under combined dataset of LSU, SSU and tef1 alignments (Liu et al. 2011, Phookamsak et al. 2015b). Thus, Astrosphaeriellopsis was assigned at Pleosporales genera incertae sedis. However, when Wanasinghe et al. (2018a) introduced Astrosphaeriellopsis caryotae and added sequence data of three strains of the species in concatenated DNA dataset, phylogenetic analyses revealed that Astrosphaeriellopsis is within Astrosphaeriellaceae. Astrosphaeriellopsis is characterized by rarely clustered at the base, hemisphaerical, carbonaceous ascostromata and hyaline, becoming brown at maturity, fusiform ascospores with sheath.

 

Type species: Astrosphaeriellopsis bakeriana (Sacc.) J.K. Liu, Phookamsak & K.D. Hyde, Fungal Divers 74: 192 (2015)

≡ Winterina bakeriana Sacc., Bulletino dell’orto Botanico della R. Universitá di Napoli 6: 45 (1918).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Astrosphaeriellopsis.

 

References

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.

Wanasinghe DN, Jeewon R, Jones EBG, Boonmee S et al. 2018a – Novel palmicolous taxa within Pleosporales: multigene phylogeny and taxonomic circumscription. Mycological Progress 17, 571–590.

 

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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