Corynesporasca

Fungalpedia – Note 2167, Corynesporasca

 

Corynesporasca. Sivan.

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

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1

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

 

Notes – The monotypic genus Corynesporasca was introduced by Sivanesan (1996) to accommodate Co. caryotae. It is characterized by cleistothecioid ascomata, bitunicate and 8-spored asci and oblong, 3-septate ascospores mostly with a supramedian primary septum (Sivanesan 1996). Sivanesan (1996) linked Corynesporasca with an unnamed Corynespora asexual morph based on culture studies. However, Hyde et al. (2013) did not synonymize Corynesporasca under Corynespora, as Corynespora was shown to be polyphyletic (Tanaka et al. 2005c, 2015, Schoch et al. 2009a, Voglmayr & Jaklitsch 2017). The type species of Corynespora and Corynesporasca (Corynespora cassiicola and Corynesporasca caryotae) may be unrelated (Hyde et al. 2013). Moreover, Corynespora-like asexual morphs have been shown in many genera (Seifert et al. 2011). Although Corynesporasca was treated as a synonym of Corynespora in several studies (Rossman et al. 2015, Wijayawardene et al. 2017a, 2018), we choose to follow Hyde et al. (2013) and suggest Corynespora and Corynesporasca are distinct genera until molecular data of the type species are available. The phylogenetic relationships of these two genera need to be further revealed.

 

Type species: Corynesporasca caryotae Sivan.

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Corynesporasca.

 

 

Figure 1 – Corynesporasca caryotae (redrawn from Sivanesan 1996 and Hyde et al. 2013). a Ascoma. b Asci. c Ascospores. Scale bars: a = 100 μm, b, c = 20 μm.

 

References

Hyde KD, Jones EBG, Liu J-K, Ariyawansa H et al. 2013 – Families of Dothideomycetes. Fungal Diversity 63, 1–313.

Hyde KD, Jones EBG, Liu J-K, Ariyawansa H et al. 2013 – Families of Dothideomycetes. Fungal Diversity 63, 1–313.

Rossman AY, Crous PW, Hyde KD, Hawksworth DL et al. 2015 – Recommended names for pleomorphic genera in Dothideomycetes. IMA Fungus 6, 507–523.

Schoch CL, Crous PW, Groenewald JZ, Boehm EWA et al. 2009a – A class-wide phylogenetic assessment of Dothideomycetes. Studies in Mycology 64, 1–15.

Seifert K, Morgan-Jones G, Gams W, Kendrick B. 2011 – The genera of hyphomycetes. CBS Biodiversity Series no. 9: 1–997. CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Sivanesan A. 1996 – Corynesporasca caryotae gen. et sp. nov. with a Corynespora anamorph, and the family Corynesporascaceae. Mycological Research 100, 783–788.

Tanaka K, Hirayama K, Yonezawa H, Sato G et al. 2015 – Revision of the Massarineae (Pleosporales, Dothideomycetes). Studies in Mycology 82, 75–136.

Tanaka K, Ooki Y, Hatakeyama S, Harada Y, Barr ME. 2005c – Pleosporales in Japan (5): Pleomassaria, Asteromassaria, and Splanchnonema. Mycoscience 46, 248–260.

Voglmayr H, Jaklitsch WM. 2017 – Corynespora, Exosporium and Helminthosporium revisited–New species and generic reclassification. Studies in Mycology 87, 43–76.

Wijayawardene NN, Hyde KD, Lumbsch HT, Liu JK et al. 2018 – Outline of Ascomycota: 2017. Fungal Diversity 88, 167–263.

Wijayawardene NN, Hyde KD, Rajeshkumar KC, Hawksworth DL et al. 2017a – Notes for genera: Ascomycota. Fungal Diversity 86, 1–594.

 

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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