Fungalpedia – Note 1832, Brachysporium
Brachysporium. Sacc.
Citation when using this data: Hyde KD et al. 2020 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1
Classification: Trichosphaeriaceae, Trichosphaeriales, Diaporthomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Notes – Brachysporium was introduced by Saccardo (1886). Brachysporium comprise many saprobic wood-inhabiting species (Ellis 1971, Holubová-Jechová 1972, Réblová & Seifert 2004b). Réblová & Seifert (2004b) established the sexual morph genus Cryptadelphia and linked it with Brachysporium asexual morphs. Cryptadelphia was synonymized under Brachysporium due to nomenclatural priority. The sexual morph of this genus is characterised by superficial, globose to subglobose ascomata with ostioles, 8-spored, unitunicate, cylindrical to clavate asci with long pedicels and a distinct, refractive apical ring, and hyaline, fusiform to ellipsoidal to oblong-lemon-shaped ascospores with a central septum (Réblová & Seifert 2004b). The asexual morph has macronematous, mononematous, unbranched conidiophores, polyblastic, terminal, denticulate conidiogenous cells, and clavate, ellipsoidal, fusiform, limoniform, obovoid or pyriform, septate, brown conidia, which often have one or more cells paler than the others (Ellis 1971, Réblová & Seifert 2004b, Markovskaja & Treigienė 2007).
Type species: Brachysporium obovatum (Berk.) Sacc., Syll. Fung. (Abellini) 4: 427 (1886).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Brachysporium.
Figure 1 – Brachysporium obovatum redrawn from Seifert et al. (2011).
References
Ellis MB. 1971 – Dematiaceous hyphomycetes. Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Kew, Surrey, England.
Saccardo PA. 1886 – Sylloge Hyphomycetum. Sylloge Fungorum 4, 1–807.
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