Camarops

Fungalpedia – Note 1079, Camarops

 

Camarops P. Karst.

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

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Classification: Boliniaceae, Boliniales, Sordariomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

The genus Camarops is characterized by applanate or flat-pulvinate stromata, with separate ostioles at the surface and very long tubular perithecia with a palisade layer of cream or brownish coloured cells (Karsten 1873, Lumbsch & Huhndorf 2010). Camarops hypoxyloides is the type species of the genus (Karsten 1873). Currently, 30 species are listed in Index Fungorum (2019). Camarops species include members of wood-inhabiting ascomycetous fungi and represent an ecologically important fungal group with many members commonly occurring throughout temperate and tropical regions (Huhndorf & Miller 2008, Kim et al. 2014). Camarops species have not been reported form marine environments so far. Further collections and sequences are needed to confirm this identification.

Type species: Camarops hypoxyloides P. Karst., Bidr. Känn. Finl. Nat. Folk 23: 53 (1873).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Camarops.

 

 

Figure 1 – Camarops ustulinoides (MFLU 18-0561). a Stromata on host tissue. b Horizontal section of ascostromata. c, d Asci. e Paraphyses. f–i Ascospores. Scale bars: a = 500 μm, b = 200 μm, c–e = 20 μm, f–i = 2 μm.

 

References

Huhndorf SM, Miller AN. 2008 – A new species of Camarops and phylogenetic analysis of related taxa in the Boliniaceae. North American Fungi 3, 231–239.

Karsten PA. 1873 – Mycologia fennica. Pars secunda. Pyrenomycetes. Bidrag till Kännedom av Finlands Natur och Folk 23, 1–252.

Kim CM, Lee JS, Lim YW. 2014 – Research Note: A new record of the genus Camarops (Boliniaceae) in Korea. 한국균학회지 42, 341–343.

Lumbsch HT, Huhndorf SM. 2010 – Myconet volume 14 part one. Outline of Ascomycota-2009. Fieldiana Life and Earth Sciences 1, 1–922.

 

Entry by

Monika Dayarathne, 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, World Agro forestry Centre East and Central Asia Office, 132 Lanhei Road, Kunming 650201, China, Key Laboratory for Plant Biodiversity and Biogeography of East Asia (KLPB), Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China

 

Published online 13 January 2020

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