Fungalpedia – Note 2270, Celosporium

 

Celosporium Tsuneda & M.L. Davey

Citation when using this data: Hongsanan S et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

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Classification: Incertae sedis, Dothioraceae, Dothideales, Dothideomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

There is only one species of Celosporium. Celosporium is characterized by coelomycetous, dematiaceous hyphae forming terminal or intercalary, black, irregular shaped cellular clumps, with aggregated cellular clumps conidiomata, and 1–3-celled, hyaline endoconidia, released by cell-wall dissolution of the conidiogenous cells (Tsuneda et al. 2010). Based on molecular analysis Thambugala (2014a) placed Celosporium in Dothideales, genera incertae sedis. Crous (2018a) indicated that this genus clustered with Muellerites juniper and Neocelosporium eucalypti within Neocelosporiaceae.

Type species: Celosporium laricicola Tsuneda & M.L. Davey [as ‘larixicolum’], Botany 88(5): 473 (2010).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Celosporium.

 

References

Crous PW, Luangsa-Ard JJ, Wingfield MJ, Carnegie AJ et al. 2018a – Fungal Planet description sheets: 785–867. Persoonia 41, 238–417.

Thambugala KM, Ariyawansa HA, Li YM, Boonmee S et al. 2014a – Dothideales. Fungal Diversity 68, 105–158.

Tsuneda A, Davey ML, Tsuneda I, Currah RS. 2010 – Two new dothideomycetous endoconidial genera from declining larch. Botany 88, 471–487.

 

Entry by

Sinang Hongsanan, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for Plant Epigenetics, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Microbial Genetic Engineering, College of Life Science and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, People’s Republic of China, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50002, Thailand 

 

Published online 10 April 2026

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