Fungalpedia – Note 882, Conlariaceae

 

Conlariaceae H. Zhang, K.D. Hyde & Maharachch.

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

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank.

Classification: Atractosporales, Diaporthomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Conlariaceae was established to accommodate a single holomorphic genus Conlarium (Zhang et al. 2017). Luo et al. (2019) included another sexual genus Riomyces in the family based on multigene analysis. In our phylogenetic analysis, Riomyces clusters within Conlarium with good bootstrap support. However, the two genera have entirely different characteristics. Conlarium has a long neck of ascomata, cylindrical asci with a large apical ring and fusiform ascospores, while Riomyces has a short neck of ascomata, asci without an apical ring, and broadly ellipsoidal-fusiform ascospores with an irregular, expanding sheath (Ferrer et al. 2012, Liu et al. 2012). The asexual morph of Conlarium has muriform, brown and irregular-shaped conidia, while the asexual morph of Riomyces is undetermined. To clarify the relationships between Conlarium and Riomyces, more collections are needed for these two genera. Conlariaceae was placed in Atractosporales based on limited data (Zhang et al. 2017), and later was shown to be phylogenetically distant from the type family Atractosporaceae in Luo et al. (2019). Hyde et al. (2021) established a new order Conlariales to accommodate this family based on a divergence time study.

Type genus – Conlarium F. Liu & L. Cai.

 

References

Ferrer A, Miller AN, Sarmiento C, Shearer CA 2012 – Three new genera representing novel lineages of Sordariomycetidae (Sordariomycetes, Ascomycota) from tropical freshwater habitats in Costa Rica. Mycologia 104, 865–879. 

Hyde KD, Bao DF, Hongsanan S, Chethana KWT et al. 2021 – Evolution of freshwater Diaporthomycetidae (Sordariomycetes) provides evidence for five new orders and six new families. Fungal Diversity (in press.)

Liu F, Hu DM, Cai L. 2012 – Canlarium duplumascospora gen. et. sp nov and Jobellisia guangdongensis sp. nov. from freshwater habitats in China. Mycologia 104, 1178–1186.

Luo ZL, Hyde KD, Liu JK, Maharachchikumbura SSN et al. 2019 – Freshwater Sordariomycetes. Fungal Diversity 99, 451–660.

Zhang H, Dong W, Hyde KD, Maharachchikumbura SSN et al. 2017 – Towards a natural classification of Annulatascaceae-like taxa: introducing Atractosporales ord. nov. and six new families. Fungal Diversity 85, 75–110.

 

Entry by

Wei Dong, Faculty of Agriculture and Food, Kunming University of Science & Technology, Kunming 650500, China, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Innovative Agriculture Research Center, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Center of Excellence for Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, Innovative Institute for Plant Health, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Haizhu District, Guangzhou 510225, China

 

Published online 15 February 2021

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