Fungalpedia – Note 2165, Coniothyrium

 

Coniothyrium. Corda.

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

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1

Classification: Coniothyriaceae, Pleosporales, Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

 

Notes – Coniothyrium was considered to be the asexual morph of Leptosphaeria, Mycosphaerella and Massarina (Sivanesan 1984). However, many species were removed from Coniothyrium and included in other genera or upgraded to generic level (Verkley et al. 2004b, 2014, Cortinas et al. 2006). De Gruyter et al. (2013) reinstated Coniothyriaceae (Coniothyrium as family type), which was synonymized under Leptosphaeriaceae (Kirk et al. 2008).

 

Type species: Coniothyrium palmarum Corda, Icon. fung. (Prague) 4: 38 (1840).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Coniothyrium.

 

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Figure 1 – Coniothyrium eucalypticola (redrawn from Sutton 1980). a vertical section of a conidioma. b conidiogenous cells. c conidia. Scale bars: a, b = 10 μm.

 

References

Cortinas MN, Burgess T, Dell B, Xu D et al. 2006 – First record of Colletogloeopsis zuluense comb. nov., causing a stem canker of Eucalyptus in China. Mycological Research 110, 229–236.

De Gruyter J, Woudenberg JHC, Aveskamp AA, Verkley GJM et al. 2013 – Redisposition of phoma-like anamorphs in Pleosporales. Studies in Mycology 75, 1–36.

Kirk P, Cannon P, Minter D, Stalpers JA. 2008 – Dictionary of the Fungi. 10th edn. CAB International, Wallingford.

Sivanesan A. 1984 – The bitunicate ascomycetes and their anamorphs. J. Cramer, Vaduz, p 701.

Verkley GJM, Dukik K, Renfurm R, Göker M, Stielow JB. 2014 – Novel genera and species of coniothyrium-like fungi in Montagnulaceae (Ascomycota). Persoonia. 32, 25–51.

Verkley GJM, Starink-Willemse M, van Iperen A, Abeln ECA. 2004b – Phylogenetic analyses of Septoria species based on the ITS and LSU-D2 regions of nuclear ribosomal DNA. Mycologia 96, 558–571.

 

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 8 April 2026

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