Fungalpedia – Note 538, Braunomyces
Braunomyces Melnik & Crous
Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1
Classification: Incertae sedis, Incertae sedis, Incertae sedis, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi.
Braunomyces, a new genus in Ascomycetes, with B. dictyosporus as a type species, which is an asexual species on the leaf debris of an unidentified broadleaved tree, was described by Melnik and Crous (2014) based on morphological characteristics. To date, Braunomyces comprises only a single species, B. dictyosporus, and is distinct from other synnematous and non-synnematous dematiaceous hyphomycete genera. This genus is characterized by determinate synnematous conidiomata, integrated, terminal, and intercalary conidiogenous cells, one to several conidiogenous vesicles becoming cupulate with age, tretic conidiogenesis, and mostly cruciately septate, solitary dictyoconidia (Melnik & Crous 2014).
Type species: Braunomyces dictyosporus V.A. Melnik & Crous
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Braunomyces
Figure 1 – Braunomyces dictyosporus (HAL 2606). a Synnema. b Conidiogenous cells. c Conidiogenous vesicles. d Conidia. Bars: a = 50 µm, b–d = 10 µm. Redrawn from Melnik & Crous (2014).
Reference
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Lu W, Excellence Center of Microbial Diversity and Sustainable Utilization, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand; Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, Yunnan 655011, China
(Edited by Saowaluck Tibpromma, Samaneh Chaharmiri-Dokhaharani, & Achala R. Rathnayaka)
Published online 9 December 2024