Fungalpedia – Note 2225, Dothidea
Dothidea Fr.
Citation when using this data: Hongsanan S et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1
Classification: Dothideaceae, Dothideales, Dothideomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Dothidea is mainly characterized in having dark brown to black, erumpent to superficial, solitary or scattered, multiloculate ascostromata, with 3–15 locules, with or without ostioles, 8-spored, bitunicate, fissitunicate asci with a short broad pedicel, and 1-septate ascospores with or without a sheath. The asexual morph of Dothidea is undetermined. Members of this genus live in both terrestrial and aquatic habitats and are found worldwide (Lumbsch & Huhndorf 2010, Wijayawardene et al. 2017a).
Type species: Dothidea sambuci (Pers.) Fr.
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Dothidae.
Figure 1 – Dothidea sambuci (GZU 78–2002, epitype). a, b Appearance of ascostromata on the host substrate. c–d Vertical section through ascostroma. e Peridium f–g Asci h–i Ascospores. Scale bars: a = 1000 μm, b = 500 μm, c–d = 50 μm, e = 5 μm, f–g = 20 μm, h–i = 10 μm.
References
Lumbsch HT, Huhndorf SM. 2010 – Outline of Ascomycota 2009. Myconet 14, 1–64.
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 3 April 2026