Fungalpedia – Note 822, Botryola
Botryola Bat. & J.L. Bezerra
Citation when using this data: Huang SK et al. 2021 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1
Classification: Nitschkiaceae, Coronophorales, Hypocreomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Saprobic on wood. Sexual morph: Ascomata solitary to gregarious, immersed to erumpent thought the bark of substrate, carbonaceous, cupuliform, globose to subglobose, black, with spinous setae, lacking ostioles, with Quellkörper. Peridium composed of brown to hyaline cells of textura angularis to textura prismatica. Paraphyses absent. Asci 4-spored, unitunicate, clavate to cylindrical, apex rounded, with long pedicel, evanescent. Ascospores uni- or bi-seriate, hyaline, 1-septate, oblong to cylindrical, smooth-walled, guttulate. Asexual morph: Undetermined (adapted from Batista et al. 1964).
Notes – The monotypic Botryola was initially placed in Coronophoraceae, but was subsequently clarified as a genus in Nitschkiaceae based on its ascomata similar to Fracchiaea (Batista et al. 1964, Eriksson & Hawksworth 1987, Lumbsch & Huhndorf 2010, Maharachchikumbura et al. 2016, Hyde et al. 2020e).
Type species: Botryola tetrasperma Bat. & J.L. Bezerra, in Batista, Bezerra, Castrillón & Matta, Publicações Inst. Micol. Recife 431: 13 (1964).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Botryola.
Figure 1 – Biciliosporina karwarensis: a–b (IMI-IMI324681, holotype); c–e (redrawn from Subramanian & Sekar 1990). a Material. b Collapsed ascomata on the host. c Sectional view of ascoma. d Asci. e Ascospores; Syspastospora parasitica: f (redrawn from Cannon & Hawksworth 1982). f Ascospores; Scopinella barbata: g–h (redrawn from Hawksworth 1975). g Ascus. h Ascospores; Loranitschkia viticola: i (redrawn from Vasilyeva et al. 2010). i Asci and ascospores; Botryola tetrasperma: j (redrawn from Batista et al. 1964). j Asci and ascospores; Setiferotheca nipponica: k–m (redrawn from Matsushima 1995). k Peridium with setae. l Asci. m Ascospores; Janannfeldtia karwarensis: n (redrawn from Subramanian & Sekar 1990). n Asci and ascospores; Vittatispora coorgii: o–q (redrawn from Chaudhary et al. 2006). o Ascoma. p Ascus. q Ascospores; Rhagadostomella gregaria: r–s (redrawn from Etayo 2002). r Ascospores. s Asci; Neochaetosphaerella thaxteriospora: t (redrawn from Vasilyeva et al. 2012). t Ascus and ascospores; Tortulomyces thailandicus: u (redrawn from Vasilyeva et al. 2013). u Ascus and ascospores. Scale bars: b = 500 µm, c, k, o = 200 µm, i = 50 µm, d, j, n, s–u = 20 µm, e, g, l, r = 10 µm, h, m, p–q = 5 µm, f = 2 µm.
References
Batista AC, Bezerra JL, Castrillon AL, da Matta EAF. 1964 – Novos Ascomycetos foliícolas e caulinares. Publicações do Instituto de Micologia da Universidade do Recife 431, 1–22.
Eriksson OE, Hawksworth DL. 1987 – Outline of the Ascomycetes. Syst Ascomycetum 6, 259–337.
Etayo J. 2002 – Aportación al conocimiento de los hongos liquenícolas de Colombia. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 84, 1–154.
Matsushima T. 1995 – Matsushima Mycological Memoires 8. Matsushima Mycological Memoirs 8, 1–44.
Subramanian CV, Sekar G. 1990 – Coronophorales from India-a monograph. Kavaka 18, 19–90.
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