Fungalpedia – Note 2758, Bombardia

 

Bombardia. (Fr.) P. Karst.

Citation when using this data: Huang SK et al. 2021 – Fungalpedia.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1

Classification: Bombardiaceae, Sordariales, Sordariomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Saprobic on wood. Sexual morph: Ascomata perithecial, immersed to semi-immersed, solitary or gregarious, oval to subglobose, coriaceous to membranaceous, dark brown to black, glabrous or surrounded by branched hairs, ostiolate, with papilla. Paraphyses filiform, branched. Asci 8-spored, unitunicate, ellipsoidal to cylindrical, pedicellate, rounded or truncate apex, evanescent. Ascospores hyaline and cylindrical when young, upper cell becoming swollen to fusiform or oval, brown; lower cell cylindrical or subglobose, hyaline, smooth-walled, with guttules. Asexual morph: Undetermined (adapted from Fries 1849).

Notes: Fries (1849) introduced Sphaeria subgenus, Bombardia, based on ‘Sphaeria (Bombardia) fasciculata’, and Karsten (1873) raised this species to genus level and established Bombardia. Saccardo (1882) clarified ‘Sphaeria (Bombardia) fasciculata’ (≡ Sphaeria fasciculata Fr.) and S. bombarda Batsch. as conspecific, and named Bombardia fasciculata which is a homonym of B. fasciculata Rab. (Batsch 1786; Rabenhorst 1851). However, the illegitimate B. fasciculata is still used (Maharachchikumbura et al. 2016; Index Fungorum 2020) and caused some confusion. Bombardia bombarda (= Sphaeria bombarda Batsch.) was recommended as the generic type instead of B. fasciculata (Schröter 1894; Lundqvist 1972), and its molecular data was provided later (Miller and Huhndorf 2005; Spatafora et al. 2006). In this study, Bombardia is sister to Bombardioidea in Bombardiaceae (100%ML/1.00PP).

Type species: Bombardia bombarda (Batsch) J. Schröt., in Cohn, Krypt.-Fl. Schlesien (Breslau) 3.2(1–2): 302 (1893).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Bombardia.

 

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Figure 1 – Bombardia bombarda: a, b, d, g–i, m–p (S-F750); c, e, f, j–l, q–t (S-F753). a Herbarium material. b, c Ascomata on host. d, e Ascoma in cross section. f Ostiole with periphyses. g Peridium. h–l Asci. m–t Ascospores. Scale bars: b–c = 1 mm, d–e = 200 µm, f. h–l = 100 µm, g = 50 µm, m–t = 20 µm.

 

References

Fries EM 1849 – Summa vegetabilium Scandinaviae 2:259–572.

Index Fungorum 2020 – http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/Names.asp.

Karsten PA 1873 – Mycologia fennica. Pars secunda. Pyrenomycetes. Bidrag till Kännedom Av Finlands Natur Och Folk 23:1–252.

Lundqvist N 1972 – Nordic Sordariaceae s. lat. Symbolae Botanicae Upsalienses 20:1–374.

Maharachchikumbura SS, Hyde KD, Jones EG et al 2016 – Families of sordariomycetes. Fungal Divers 79:1–317.

Miller AN, Huhndorf SM 2005 – Multi-gene phylogenies indicate ascomal wall morphology is a better predictor of phylogenetic relationships than ascospore morphology in the Sordariales (Ascomycota, Fungi). Mol Phylogenet Evol 35(1):60–75.

Saccardo PA 1882 – Sylloge Pyrenomycetum, Vol. I. Sylloge Fungorum 1:1–768.

Schröter J 1894 – Kryptogamen-Flora von Schlesien 3–2(9):257–384.

Spatafora JW, Sung G-H, Johnson D et al 2006 – A five-gene phylogeney of Pezizomycotina. Mycologia 98(6):1018–1028.

 

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 18 June 2026

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