Dermateaceae

Dermateaceae. Fr.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank

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

Taxa are saprobic or plant pathogenic. Ascomata are apothecial and characterised by sessile or short-stipitate, cupulate to sub-spherical, urceolate or discoid receptacle. The ectal excipulum is sometimes reduced within host tissue or composed of cells of textura angularis to globulosa, with yellow to brown pigments and medullary excipulum is composed of cells of textura angularis. Paraphyses are filiform, apically slightly swollen, septate and branched. Asci are 4–8-spored, cylindric-clavate, amyloid or non-amyloid and arising from croziers. Ascospores are hyaline, ellipsoid-oblong, aseptate, guttulate and sometimes with a delicate sheath (Petrak 1951, Nauta & Spooner 1999a, b, c, d, 2000a, b, Svrček 1977a, Ekanayaka et al. 2016). Asexual morphs are pycnidial or acervular. Microconidia are rod-shaped, eguttulate and hyaline and macroconidia are hyaline, multi-guttulate, ellipsoid-oblong to fusoid, aseptate at immature state and becoming muriform at maturity (Ekanayaka et al. 2016, Verkley et al. 2010, Zhu et al. 2012, Romero et al. 2017).

Notes – Dermateaceae is a plant pathogenic family classified under Helotiales.  Taxa of this family are plant pathogenic which cause stem and fruit rots on vascular plants (Lin et al. 2018, Cameldi et al. 2017, Michalecka et al. 2016, Pešicová et al. 2017, Yuan et al. 2016, Yuan & Verkley 2015, Chen et al. 2016, Romero et al. 2017).

Type genus: Dermea Fr., Syst. orb. veg. (Lundae): 114 (1825).