Fungalpedia – Note 1294, Delonicicolaceae

 

Delonicicolaceae. R.H. Perera, Maharachch. & K.D. Hyde.

Citation when using this data: Hyde KD et al. 2020 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank

Classification: Delonicicolales, Xylariomycetidae, SordariomycetesPezizomycotinaAscomycotaFungi 

Saprobic on fabaceous hosts. Sexual morph: Pseudostromata conspicuously pulvinate to inconspicuous, embedded in host tissue or erumpent to rarely superficial, visible as raised, dark spots on the host surface, more or less elevated patches on the wood or erumpent through the bark, yellowish, brown to black; sometimes covered by yellow to yellow-green, bright turquoise, scurf. Ascomata perithecial, immersed in pseudostroma, multi-loculate, aggregated, globose, subglobose to conical or irregular, subhyaline to pale brown, ostiolate. Ostioles papillate. Peridium composed of subhyaline to medium brown cells of textura angularis to textura prismatica, KOH-. Paraphyses septate, unbranched or occasionally branched, hyaline. Asci 8-spored, unitunicate, arising from the base or margins of the ascomata, clavate to cylindrical, straight, curved to sinuous, thin-walled, J-, without a distinct apical ring. Ascospores bi-seriate to uniseriate, hyaline, ellipsoid or allantoid, equilateral or inequilateral, with rounded apices, aseptate or 1-septate, not constricted at the septa, thin-walled, smooth, without appendages or gelatinous sheath. Asexual morph: Undetermined.

Notes – Perera et al. (2017) introduced Delonicicolaceae (Delonicicolales) to accommodate Delonicicola and Liberomyces. Liberomyces was synonymised under Leptosillia and added to Leptosilliaceae (Voglmayr et al. 2019a). A new genus Furfurella was added to Delonicicolaceae based on morphological and molecular evidence by Voglmayr et al. (2019a). Vitale et al. (2018) and Voglmayr et al. (2019a) accepted Delonicicolaceae within Xylariales. However, based on our phylogenetic analysis we maintain Delonicicolaceae in Delonicicolales following the classification of Perera et al. (2017).

Type species: Delonicicola R.H. Perera, Maharachch. & K.D. Hyde, in Perera, Maharachchikumbura, Jones, Bahkali, Elgorban, Liu, Liu & Hyde, Cryptog. Mycol. 38(3): 334 (2017).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Delonicicolaceae.

 

References

Perera RH, Maharachchikumbura SSN, Jones EBG, Bahkali AH et al. 2017 – Delonicicola siamense gen. & sp. nov.(Delonicicolaceae fam. nov., Delonicicolales ord. nov.), a saprobic species from Delonix regia seed pods. Cryptogamie Mycologie 38, 321–341.

Vitale S, Aiello D, Guarnaccia V, Luongo L et al. 2018 – Liberomyces pistaciae sp. nov., the causal agent of pistachio cankers and decline in Italy. MycoKeys 40, 29–51.

Voglmayr H, Aguirre-Hudson MB, Wagner HG, Tello S et al. 2019a – Lichens or endophytes? The enigmatic genus Leptosillia in the Leptosilliaceae fam. nov. (Xylariales), and Furfurella gen. nov. (Delonicicolaceae). Persoonia 42, 228–260.

 

Entry by

Kevin David Hyde, Institute of Plant Health, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Haizhu District, Guangzhou 510225, P.R. China, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, Mushroom Research Foundation, 128 M.3 Ban Pa Deng T. Pa Pae, A. Mae Taeng, Chiang Mai 50150, Thailand, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China, School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, World Agroforestry Centre, East and Central Asia, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China

 

Published online 28 February 2020