Fungalpedia – Note 1117, Batistiaceae
Batistiaceae. Samuels & K.F.
Citation when using this data: Hyde KD et al. 2020 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
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Classification: Batistiales, Incertae sedis, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Saprobic on wood. Sexual morph: Ascomatacleistothecial, stipitate-capitate, solitary to gregarious, superficial, black, globose, long stipitate, carbonaceous, without an ostiole. Peridiumcephalothecoid. Asci8-spored, unitunicate, globose, lacking a visible discharge ring and deliquescent. Ascosporesirregularly arranged, brown, ellipsoidal to oblong, 1-celled, without germ slits or germ pores, smooth-walled. Asexual morph: Hyphomycetous. Synnematadeterminate, dark brown to black. Hyphae of stipe parallel, dark brown, septa simple. Conidiophores forming a compact, grey palisade.Capitulumterminal, globose, in vertical section composed of a darkly pigmented dome of angular cells giving rise to loose textura intricata of hyaline, more or less swollen hyphae, a compact subhymenium of similar hyphae and then a conidiogenous hymenium.Conidiogenous cellsphialidic, single or in terminal pairs, light brown, cylindrical, with an abruptly terminated apex and cylindrical collarette, smooth-walled. Conidiain dry chains without connectives, pale olivaceous, light brown to grey in mass, ellipsoidal, globose, subglobose or oblong, 1-celled, with thin, smooth-walls (adapted from Maharachchimbura et al. 2016b).
Notes – Batistiaceae,introduced in 1989 and classified in Sordariales, is typified by Batistia (Samuels & Rodrigues 1989, Eriksson 2001). Kirk et al. (2001) excluded the family from Sordariales and placed in Sordariomycetidae families incertae sedis. However, based on molecular analyses, Huhndorf et al. (2004b) placed Batistiaceaein Pezizomycotina family incertae sedis.This classification was followed by Lumbsch & Huhndorf (2010) and Wijayawardene et al. (2012). However, Maharachchikumbura et al. (2015) determined that the sequence data published by Huhndorf et al. (2004b) was contaminated. The classification of Batistiaceaewas verified in Sordariomycetidae family incertae sedis (Maharachchikumbura et al. 2015, 2016b, , Hongsanan et al. 2017, Wijayawardene et al. 2018a). A lack of ex-type cultures and sequence data in GenBank makes it difficult to place Batistiaceaein a phylogenetic scheme (Kirk et al. 2008, Maharachchikumbura et al. 2015, 2016b, Hongsanan et al. 2017). We follow its classification in Sordariomycetidae family incertae sedisuntil other evidence emerges (Maharachchikumbura et al. 2015, 2016b). Fresh collections, especially of neotype or epitype strains, together with molecular data are needed to clarify the species and family. In this entry Batistia annulipes is illustrated.
Type species: Batistia Cif., Atti Ist. bot. Univ. Lab. crittog. Pavia, sér. 5 15: 166 (1958).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Batistiaceae.
References
Eriksson OE. 2001 – Outline of Ascomycota. Myconet 6, 1–27.
Kirk PM, Cannon PF, David JC, Stalpers JA. 2001 – Ainsworth and Bisby’s Dictionary of the Fungi, 8th edn. CABI Publishing, London.
Entry by
Kevin David Hyde, Institute of Plant Health, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Haizhu District, Guangzhou 510225, P.R. China, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, Mushroom Research Foundation, 128 M.3 Ban Pa Deng T. Pa Pae, A. Mae Taeng, Chiang Mai 50150, Thailand, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China, School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, World Agroforestry Centre, East and Central Asia, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China
Published online 28 February 2020