Fungalpedia – Note 2306, Curreya

 

Curreya. Sacc.

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

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

 

Notes – Curreya was erected by Saccardo (1883) based on Homostegia conorum. Theissen & Sydow (1915) classified Curreya in Dothideales and Petrak (1940) classified it under Cucurbitaria Gray. Subsequently, based on coniothyrium–like asexual morphs, Von Arx & van der Aa (1983) considered Curreya to be closely related to Didymosphaeria, Melanomma, Paraphaeosphaeria or Massarina. Curreya species are mainly characterized in having coniothyrium-like asexual morph, small sclerotial cells in peridium and narrower, thinner-walled asci (Zhang et al. 2012b). Therefore, Barr (1990a) assigned Curreya to Leptosphaeriaceae and Zhang et al. (2012b) referred it to Cucurbitariaceae. 

There have been few molecular investigations of Curreya as compared to morphological studies. The generic type, C. conorum, has neither been well studied nor has DNA data. Jaklitsch et al. (2016b) moved Curreya austroafricana to Teichosporaceae and classified it under Teichospora based on both morphological and phylogeny analyses. Vu et al. (2019) referred Curreya pityophila (CBS 149.32) to Didymosphaeriaceae, but without morphological data. We keep Curreya in Didymosphaeriaceae, but recollection of the type specimens and molecular data from type strains are essential to resolve the placement of this genus.

 

Type species: Curreya conorum (Fuckel) Sacc., Sylloge Fungorum 2: 651 (1883).

≡ Homostegia conorum Fuckel, Jb. nassau. Ver. Naturk. 29-30: 38 (1875) [1877-78].

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Curreya.

 

References

Barr ME. 1990a – Melanommatales (Loculoascomycetes). North American Flora 13(II), 1–129.

Jaklitsch WM, Olariaga I, Voglmayr H. 2016b – Teichospora and the Teichosporaceae. Mycological Progress 15, 31.

Saccardo PA. 1883 – Sylloge Pyrenomycetum, Vol. II. Sylloge Fungorum. 2, 1–815

Theissen F, Sydow H. 1915 – Die Dothideales. Kritisch-systematische riginaluntersuchungen. Annales Mycologici 13, 147–746.

Vu D, Groenewald M, de Vries M, Gehrmann T et al. 2019 – Large-scale generation and analysis of filamentous fungal DNA barcodes boosts coverage for kingdom fungi and reveals thresholds for fungal species and higher taxon delimitation. Studies in Mycology 92, 135–154.

Zhang Y, Crous PW, Schoch CL, Hyde KD. 2012b – Pleosporales. Fungal Diversity 53, 1–221.

 

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 9 April 2026  

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