Fungalpedia – Note 990, Aurantiascoma

 

Aurantiascoma Thambug. & K.D. Hyde

Citation when using this data: de Silva NI et al. 2022 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1

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

Thambugala et al. (2015) introduced Aurantiascoma to accommodate A. minimum as the type species, which was previously known as Misturatosphaeria minima (Mugambi and Huhndorf 2009). Jaklitsch et al. (2016) synonymized Aurantiascoma under Teichospora and erected Misturatosphaeria minima as T. parva. Recently, Tennakoon et al. (2021) resurrected Aurantiascoma as a separate genus as mentioned by Thambugala et al. (2015). Three species are recorded in Index Fungorum (2022), namely, Aurantiascoma minimum, A. nephelii and A. quercus.

Type species: Aurantiascoma minimum (Mugambi, A.N. Mill. & Huhndorf) Thambug. & K.D. Hyde, in Thambugala et al., Fungal Diversity 74: 249 (2015).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Aurantiascoma.

 

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Figure 1 – Aurantiascoma minimum (MFLU 18-1294). a Specimen. b, c Appearance of ascomata on substrate. d, e Vertical sections through ascomata. f Peridium. g Pseudoparaphyses. h–j Asci. k–n Ascospores. Scale bars: c = 100 μm, d, e = 50 μm, f, h–n = 10 μm, g = 5 μm.

 

References

Jaklitsch WM, Olariaga I, Voglmayr H. 2016 – Teichospora and the Teichosporaceae. Mycological Progress 15, 1–20.

Mugambi GK, Huhndorf SM. 2009 – Molecular phylogenetics of Pleosporales: Melanommataceae and Lophiostomataceae recircumscribed (Plesporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Ascomycota). Studies in Mycology 64, 103–121.

Tennakoon DS, Kuo CH, Maharachchikumbura SS, Thambugala KM et al. 2021 – Taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to Celtis formosana, Ficus ampelas, F. septica, Macaranga tanarius and Morus australis leaf litter inhabiting microfungi. Fungal Diversity 108, 1–215.

Thambugala KM, Hyde KD, Tanaka K, Tian Q et al. 2015 – Towards a natural classification and backbone tree for Lophiostomataceae, Floricolaceae, and Amorosiaceae fam. nov. Fungal Diversity 74, 199–266.

 

Entry by

Nimali Indeewari de Silva, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Research Center of Microbial Diversity and Sustainable Utilization, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.

 

Published online 18 November 2022

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