Fungalpedia – Note 2120, Cystocoleaceae

 

Cystocoleaceae Locq. ex Lücking, B.P. Hodk. & S.D. Leav.

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

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Classification: Mycosphaerellales, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Lichenized; Thallus superficial, dense, fluffy, filamentose; photobiont Trentepohlia. Hyphal sheath around the algal filaments composed of somewhat contorted, jigsaw puzzle-shaped cells forming a closed layer. Ascomata and conidiomata undetermined.

Notes: Cystocoleaceae was first mentioned by Locquin (1984). Based on nuLSU, nuSSU and mtSSU sequence data, Muggia et al. (2008) found that Cystocoleus belonged to Capnodiales, rather than phylogenetically close to lichenized members within Dothideomycetidae. This result was subsequently confirmed by Nelsen et al. (2009) and Ertz et al. (2014). Crous et al. (2009c) revealed Cystocoleus as a member of Teratosphaeriaceae in their comprehensive study of Capnodiales. However, Cystocoleus was treated as Capnodiales genera incertae sedis in the phylogenetic study of Quaedvlieg et al. (2014). Lücking et al. (2017) validly established Cystocoleaceae and assigned it in Capnodiales. Cystocoleaceae is a monotypic family comprising a single genus Cystocoleus (Lücking et al. 2017, Wijayawardene et al. 2017a, 2018).

Type genus: Cystocoleus Thwaites.

 

References

Crous PW, Schoch CL, Hyde KD, Wood AR et al. 2009c – Phylogenetic lineages in the Capnodiales. Studies in Mycology 64, 17–47.

Ertz D, Lawrey JD, Common RS, Diederich P. 2014 – Molecular data resolve a new order of Arthoniomycetes sister to the primarily lichenized Arthoniales and composed of black yeasts, lichenicolous and rock-inhabiting species. Fungal Diversity 66, 113–137.

Locquin M. 1984 – Mycologie générale et structurale.1–551.

Lücking R, Hodkinson BP, Leavitt SD. 2017 – The 2016 classification of lichenized fungi in the Ascomycota and Basidiomycota-approaching one thousand genera. Bryologist 119,

Muggia L, Hafellner J, Wirtz N, Hawksworth DL, Grube M. 2008 – The sterile microfilamentous lichenized fungi Cystocoleus ebeneus and Racodium rupestre are relatives of plant pathogens and clinically important dothidealean fungi. Mycological Research 112, 50–56.

Nelsen MP, Lücking R, Grube M, Mbatchou JS et al. 2009 – Unravelling the phylogenetic relationships of lichenised fungi in Dothideomyceta. Studies in Mycology 64, 135–144.

Quaedvlieg W, Binder M, Groenewald JZ, Summerell BA et al. 2014 – Introducing the consolidated species concept to resolve species in the Teratosphaeriaceae. Persoonia 33, 1–40.

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 25 March 2026

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