Fungalpedia – Note 794, Ceratostomataceae

 

Ceratostomataceae G. Winter 

Citation when using this data: Huang SK et al. 2021 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank.

Classification: Melanosporales, Hypocreomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Saprobic on wood or vegetation or dung or parasitic on other fungi or closely associated with other fungi or isolated from soil. Sexual morph: Ascomata perithecial or without an external opening, solitary or gregarious, superficial to semi-immersed, carbonaceous, coriaceous or membranaceous, opaque or translucent, yellow to brown, usually glabrous, globose to subglobose, with or lacking ostioles, usually with long necks. Necks cylindrical to conical or absent, comprising fasciculate, pale yellow to brown, cylindrical, septate hyphae, straight or slightly curved, with a tapering or jagged apex, sometimes swelling near the apex, ascospores usually accumulating in necks. Peridium membranaceous, composed of yellow to brown cells of textura angularis or textura prismatica. Asci 4–8-spored, or multi-spored, unitunicate, cylindrical to clavate, pedicellate or sessile, apical ring absent, evanescent. Ascospores uni-, bi-seriate or irregularly arranged, hyaline to dark brown, ellipsoidal to broadly fusiform, aseptate, with a germ pore at one or each end, smooth or ornamented, mostly with guttules, without sheath. Asexual morph: Hyphomycetous. Conidiophores semi-macronematous, mononematous, hyaline to brown, branched or unbranched, phialidic or bulbils, sometimes swollen. Conidia aggregated, hyaline to brown, usually aseptate, globose to citriform or ellipsoidal, with guttules (adapted from Zukal 1885, Patouillard & Lagerheim 1895, Whaley & Barnett 1963, Jeng & Cain 1977, Hoch 1977, Walker & Minter 1981, Cannon 1982, Cannon & Hawksworth 1982, Horie et al. 1986, Vakili 1989, Matsushima 1995, García et al. 2004, Mugambi & Huhndorf 2010, Fan et al. 2012, Maharachchikumbura et al. 2015, Chaudhary et al. 2016, Marin-Felix et al. 2018, Crous et al. 2019b, Hyde et al. 2020e).

Type genus: Ceratostoma Fr., Observ. mycol. (Havniae) 2: 337 (1818)

 

References

Cannon PF. 1982 – Pustulipora, a new genus of the Melanosporaceae. Mycotaxon 15, 523–528.

Cannon PF, Hawksworth DL. 1982 – A re-evaluation of Melanospora Corda and similar Pyrenomycetes, with a revision of the British species. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 84(2), 115–160.

Crous PW, Wingfield MJ, Lombard L, Roets F et al. 2019b – Fungal Planet description sheets: 951–1041. Persoonia 43, 223–425.

Fan L, Hou CL, Cannon PF, Li Y. 2012 – A new species of Melanospora on truffles from China. Mycologia 104(6), 1433–1442.

García D, Stchigel AM, Guarro J. 2004 – Two new species of Sphaerodes from Spanish soils. Studies in Mycology 50, 63–68.

Hoch H. 1977 – Mycoparasitic relationships: Gonatobotrys simplex parasitic on Alternaria tenuis. Phytopathology 67(19771), 309–314.

Horie Y, Udagawa S-l, Cannon P. 1986 – Four new Japanese species of the Ceratostomataceae (Ascomycetes). Mycotaxon 25(1), 229–245.

Hyde KD, Norphanphoun C, Maharachchikumbura SSN, Bhat DJ et al. 2020e – Refined families of Sordariomycetes. Mycosphere, 11(1), 305–1059.

Jeng RS, Cain RF. 1977 – Rhytidospora, a new cleistocarpous genus of the Melanosporaceae. Mycotaxon 5(1), 278–282.

Maharachchikumbura SSN, Hyde KD, Jones EBG, McKenzie EHC et al. 2015 – Towards a natural classification and backbone tree for Sordariomycetes. Fungal Diversity 72, 199–301.

Marin-Felix Y, Guarro J, Cano-Lira JF, García D et al. 2018 – Melanospora (Sordariomycetes, Ascomycota) and its relatives. MycoKeys(44), 81–122.

Mugambi GK, Huhndorf SM. 2010 – Multigene phylogeny of the Coronophorales: morphology and new species in the order. Mycologia 102(1), 185–210.

Matsushima T. 1995 – Matsushima Mycological Memoires 8. Matsushima Mycological Memoirs 8, 1–44.

Patouillard NT, Lagerheim Gd. 1895 – Champignons de l’Équateur (Pugillus V). Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France 11(4), 205–234.

Vakili NG. 1989 – Gonatobotrys simplex and its teleomorph, Melanospora damnosa. Mycological Research 93(1), 67–74.

Walker JC, Minter DW. 1981 – Taxonomy of Nematogonum, Gonatobotrys, Gonatobotryum and Gonatorrhodiella. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 77(2), 299–319.

Whaley JW, Barnett H. 1963 – Parasitism and nutrition of Gonatobotrys simplex. Mycologia 55(2), 199–210.

Zukal H. 1885 – Ueber einige neue Pilze, Myxomyceten und Bakterien. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 35, 333–342.

 

Entry by

Shi-Ke Huang, State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China, The Engineering Research Center of Southwest Bio-Pharmaceutical Resources, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, Guizhou Province, China, 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, The Mushroom Research Centre, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China

 

Published online 14 September 2021

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