Fungalpedia – Note 798, Echinusitheca
Echinusitheca Y. Marín, Stchigel, Dania García, Guarro, A.N. Mill. & Cano
Citation when using this data: Huang SK et al. 2021 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
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Classification: Incertae sedis, Melanosporales, Hypocreomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Isolated from soil. Sexual morph: Ascomata superficial or immersed, globose, without an external opening, pale brown to brown, semi-translucent, membranaceous, surrounded by setae. Setae straight, pale brown to brown, 0–1-septate, verrucose to tuberculate, tapering, sometimes branched. Peridium composed of brown to hyaline cells of textura angularis to textura globulosa. Asci 8-spored, unitunicate, globose to subglobose, sessile. Ascospores irregular, aseptate, hyaline becoming brown to dark brown, ellipsoidal, smooth-walled, with a germ pore at each end, mostly with guttules. Asexual morph: Undetermined (adapted from Marin-Felix et al. 2018).
Notes – Marin-Felix et al. (2018) established the monotypic Echinusitheca typified by E. citrispora. It is similar to Melanospora in having translucent ascomata and ellipsoidal ascospores; however, the former has globose ascomata and globose to subglobose asci, whereas the latter has ascomata with long necks and clavate asci (Zhang & Blackwell 2002, Marin-Felix et al. 2018).
It nests in Ceratostomataceae based on multi-gene phylogeny (Marin-Felix et al. 2018, this study).
Type species: Echinusitheca citrispora Y. Marín, Stchigel, Dania García, Guarro, A.N. Mill. & Cano, in Marin-Felix, Guarro, Cano-Lira, García, Miller & Stchigel, MycoKeys 44: 92 (2018).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Echinusitheca.
References
Entry by
Shi-Ke Huang, State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China, The Engineering Research Center of Southwest Bio-Pharmaceutical Resources, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, Guizhou Province, China, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, The Mushroom Research Centre, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
Published online 14 September 2021