Fungalpedia – Note 791, Bertiaceae

 

Bertiaceae Smyk, Ukr 

Citation when using this data: Huang SK et al. 2021 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank.

Classification: Coronophorales, Hypocreomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Saprobic on wood. Sexual morph: Subiculum inconspicuous or composed of brown to dark brown, branched, septate hyphae. Ascomata solitary or gregarious, superficial to erumpent, usually sitting on a subiculum, cupuliform, turbinate, globose to subglobose, carbonaceous to membranaceous, dark brown to black, tuberculate or smooth, collapsing, collapsing laterally or not collapsing, with ostioles or a papillate ostiole-like structure, without an external opening, periphysate, Quellkörper absent. Peridium composed of carbonaceous to membranaceous, dark brown, brown to hyaline cells of textura angularis to textura prismatica, mostly Munk pores present. Paraphyses few, inflated, branched. Asci 8-spored, unitunicate, cylindrical to clavate, long pedicellate, apical ring indistinct or absent. Ascospores 2–3-seriate or irregularly arranged, hyaline to brown, ellipsoidal to fusiform, 0 to multi-septate, smooth-walled, mostly with guttules. Asexual morph: Undetermined (adapted from Patouillard & Lagerheim 1895, Mugambi & Huhndorf 2010, Maharachchikumbura et al. 2015, Hyde et al. 2020e).

Notes – Smyk (1981) introduced the family Bertiaceae and initially included Bertia which has tuberculate ascomata and fusiform ascospores. Subsequently, Mugambi & Huhndorf (2010) re-evaluated the Coronophorales and transferred the genus Gaillardiella to Bertiaceae based on multi-gene analysis. Therefore, Bertia and Gaillardiella were confirmed as members of Bertiaceae, and they have tuberculate ascomata, cylindrical to clavate asci and ellipsoidal to fusiform ascospores (Huhndorf et al. 2004b, Mugambi & Huhndorf 2010). In this study, strains of these two genera clustered with 100%ML/1.00BY support and are closely related to Nitschkiaceae 

Type genus: Bertia De Not.

 

References

Huhndorf SM, Miller AN, Fernández FA. 2004b – Molecular systematics of the Coronophorales and new species of Bertia, Lasiobertia and Nitschkia. Mycological Research 108(12), 1384–1398.

Hyde KD, Norphanphoun C, Maharachchikumbura SSN, Bhat DJ et al. 2020e – Refined families of Sordariomycetes. Mycosphere, 11(1), 305–1059.

Maharachchikumbura SSN, Hyde KD, Jones EBG, McKenzie EHC et al. 2015 – Towards a natural classification and backbone tree for Sordariomycetes. Fungal Diversity 72, 199–301.

Mugambi GK, Huhndorf SM. 2010 – Multigene phylogeny of the Coronophorales: morphology and new species in the order. Mycologia 102(1), 185–210.

Patouillard NT, Lagerheim Gd. 1895 – Champignons de l’Équateur (Pugillus V). Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France 11(4), 205–234.

Smyk LV. 1981 – Griby poriadku Coronophorales u Mikoflory Ukraniy. Ukraïns’kii Bot Zhurn 38(6), 46–49.

 

Entry by

Shi-Ke Huang, State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China, The Engineering Research Center of Southwest Bio-Pharmaceutical Resources, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, Guizhou Province, China, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, The Mushroom Research Centre, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China

 

Published online 14 September 2021

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