Fungalpedia – Note 768, Conioscyphaceae

 

Conioscyphaceae. Réblová & Seifert.

Citation when using this data: Karimi O et al. 2025 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank.

Classification: Conioscyphales, Sordariomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Réblová et al. (2016) established Conioscyphaceae with a single genus, Conioscypha (C.), within Conioscyphales, based on morphology and combined phylogenetic analyses of SSU, LSU, and rpb2 sequences. Their phylogenetic tree showed Savoryellaceae (from Savoryellales) as the closest clade to Conioscyphaceae. Recently, Yu et al. (2024a) performed a combined phylogenetic analysis (SSU, ITS, LSU, rpb2, and tef-1α) and accepted Vanakripa as the second genus in Conioscyphaceae. The family now includes Conioscypha and Vanakripa (Hyde et al. 2024, Yu et al. 2024a, b). The sexual morphs of Conioscyphaceae feature perithecial, immersed to superficial ascomata with a papillate or elongated neck, filiform unbranched paraphyses, and unitunicate, persistent, 8-spored, cylindrical-clavate, stipitate asci with a pronounced, non-amyloid apical annulus. Ascospores are fusiform to fusiform-navicular, hyaline, transversely multi-septate, and lack mucilaginous sheaths or appendages. The asexual morph is characterised by micronematous, mononematous, hyaline conidiophores, blastic, cyathiform to doliiform conidiogenous cells, and brown or black, aseptate conidia (Réblová et al. 2016).

Type genus: Conioscypha Höhn., Annls mycol. 2(1): 58 (1904)

 

References

Hyde KD, Noorabadi MT, Thiyagaraja V, He MQ, et al. 2024 – The 2024 Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa. Mycosphere 15, 5146–6239. 

Réblová M, Seifert KA, Fournier J, Štěpánek V. 2016 – Newly recognised lineages of perithecial ascomycetes: the new orders Conioscyphales and Pleurotheciales. Persoonia 37, 57–81.

Yu XD, Zhang SN, Liang XD, Zhu JT, et al. 2024a – Bambusicolous fungi from Southwestern China. Mycosphere 15(1), 5038–5145. 

Yu XD, Zhang SN, Liu JK 2024b – Novel hyphomycetous fungi associated with bamboo from Sichuan, China. Phytotaxa 634, 235–254.

 

Entry by

Omid Karimi, State Key Laboratory of Discovery and Utilization of Functional Components in Traditional Chinese Medicine & School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guizhou Medical University, Guian New District, Guizhou 550004, 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

 

Published online 28 July 2025

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