Cenangiopsis

Cenangiopsis. Rehm.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank

Classification: Cenangiaceae, Helotiales, Leotiomycetidae, Leotiomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Cenangiopsis quercicola is a sessile, cupulate, externally pustulate and marginally hairy fungus (Fig. 3a). It differs from Encoelia furfuracea in having more fragile fruitbodies with a paler (beige) disc and protruding lanceolate paraphyses. The species forms apothecia on recently dead, thin, corticated branches of living oak trees (Læssøe and Petersen 2007), resembling 
E. furfuracea in tolerating long periods of low air humidity by inrolling the disc. The multigene and ITS rDNA phylogeny both revealed a close relationship between 
C. quercicola and an undescribed species of Cenangiopsis, “Velutarina” alpestris and Trochila spp.

Type species: Cenangiopsis quercicola (Romell) Rehm, Ber. bayer. bot. Ges. 13: 189 (1912)

References

Pärtel K, Baral HO, Tamm H, Pôldmaa K. 2017. Evidence for the polyphyly of Encoelia and Encoelioideae with reconsideration of respective families in Leotiomycetes. Fungal Diversity. 82:183–219. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-016-0370-0.