Fungalpedia – Note 1137, Calosphaeriaceae

 

Calosphaeriaceae Munk

Citation when using this data: Hyde KD et al. 2020 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank.

Classification: Calosphaeriales, Diaporthomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Calosphaeriaceae was introduced by Munk (1957) for perithecial taxa with a unique ascoma centrum in Sordariomycetes. Lumbsch & Huhndorf (2010) included eight genera (Calosphaeria, Conidiotheca, Jattaea, Kacosphaeria, Phragmocalosphaeria, Sulcatistroma, Togniniella, Wegelina) in this family. Réblová (2011) proposed Phragmocalosphaeria and Wegelina as synonyms of Jattaea based on similar septate ascospores. Maharachchikumbura et al. (2016b) accepted Calosphaeria, Jattaea, Kacosphaeria, Sulcatistroma, Togniniella and Tulipispora. A survey of Calosphaeriaceae was undertaken by Réblová et al. (2015b) and the genera Calosphaeria, Flabellascus, Jattaea and Togniniella were accepted. Their asexual morphs are dematiaceous phialidic hyphomycetes and numerous sexual-asexual relationships have been experimentally proven (Damm et al. 2008, Réblová 2011, Réblová et al. 2004, 2015b). Calosphaeriophora and Phaeocrella were originally described as asexual morphs for Calosphaeria and Togniniella (Réblová et al. 2004), however, in accordance with the abolishment of dual nomenclature for pleomorphic fungi, the names of their sexual morphs were selected following the principle of priority (Réblová et al. 2015b). In the same publication, three other genera listed in the Outline of Ascomycota (Lumbsch & Huhndorf 2010), i.e. Conidiotheca, Sulcatistroma and Kacosphaeria, were excluded from the broadly perceived Calosphaeriaceae, however, without DNA sequence data they could not be reassigned to other families. In addition, the asexual genus Tulipispora was considered a member of Calosphaeriaceae (Maharachchikumbura et al. 2016b, Wijayawardene et al. 2018a). Unfortunately, sequence data for Tulipispora is not available. We therefore exclude it from Calosphaeriaceae.

Type species: Calosphaeria Tul. & C. Tul., Select. fung. carpol. (Paris) 2: 108 (1863).

 

References

Damm U, Crous PW, Fourie PH. 2008 – A fissitunicate ascusmechanism in the Calosphaeriaceae, and novel species of Jattaea and Calosphaeria on Prunus wood. Persoonia 20, 39–52.

Lumbsch HT, Huhndorf SM. 2010 – Myconet volume 14 Part One. Outline of Ascomycota-2009. Part two. Notes on Ascomycete systematics. Nos. 4751–5113. Fieldiana Life Earth Sciences 1, 1–64.

Maharachchikumbura SSN, Hyde KD, Jones EBG, McKenzie EHC et al. 2016b – Families of Sordariomycetes. Fungal Diversity 79, 1–317.

Munk A. 1957 – Danish Pyrenomycetes, A preliminary flora. Dansk Botanisk Arkiv 17, 1–491.

Réblová M. 2011 – New insights into the systematics and phylogeny of the genus Jattaea and similar fungi of the Calosphaeriales. Fungal Diversity 49, 167‒198. 

Réblová M, Mostert L, Gams W, Crous PW. 2004 – New genera in the Calosphaeriales: Togniniella and its anamorph Phaeocrella, and Calosphaeriophora as anamorph of Calosphaeria. Studies in Mycology 50, 533–550.

Réblová M, Jaklitsch WM, Réblová K, Štěpánek V. 2015b – Phylogenetic reconstruction of the Calosphaeriales and Togniniales using five genes and predicted RNA secondary structures of ITS, and Flabellascus tenuirostris gen. et sp. nov. PloS one 10, e0144616.

Wijayawardene NN, Hyde KD, Lumbsch HT, Liu JK et al. 2018a – Outline of Ascomycota: 2017. Fungal Diversity 88, 167–263.

 

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

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