Cordierites

Cordierites. Mont.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank

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

The restricted concept of Zhuang (1988b) includes three species that form discoid to ear- or funnel-shaped, nonionomidotic (C. guianensis) or ionomidotic apothecia arising from a common base or from branched stipes, externally covered by brown hyphal protrusions (see also Saccardo 1889: 810). In the multigene analysis, the tropical type species clustered with Thamnogalla on a long branch. Sequences of target protein-coding genes could not be obtained from C. guianensis since it is poorly represented in fungal collections.

Type species: Cordierites guianensis Mont., Annls Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 2 14: 331 (1840)

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.