Fungalpedia – Note 745, Ernakulamia
Ernakulamia Subram.
Citation when using this data: Karimi O et al. 2025 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1
Classification: Tetraplosphaeriaceae, Pleosporales, Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Ernakulamia cochinensis was originally described as Petrakia cochinensis by Subramanian (1957). Ellis (1976) transferred Petrakia cochinensis to Piricauda, which was subsequently transferred to Ernakulamia (Subramanian 1994) based on morphological and ecological evidence. Delgado et al. (2017) provided molecular sequence data for E. cochinensis and placed Ernakulamia within the family Tetraplosphaeriaceae. Currently, there are five accepted species of Ernakulamia listed in the Species Fungorum (2024). To date, no species of this genus have been reported from peat swamp forests. In this study, we found E. cochinensis on Cyrtostachys renda from the peat swamp forest in Narathiwat, Thailand.
Type species: Ernakulamia cochinensis (Subram.) Subram., Kavaka 22/23: 67 (1996) [1994].
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Ernakulamia.
Figure 1 – Ernakulamia cochinensis (MFLU 24-0487, a new host and habitat record). a Host. b, c Colonies on the host. d–g Conidia. h Colonies on the PDA. Scale bars: b, c = 250 μm, d, e = 20 μm, g = 40 μm.
References
Ellis MB. 1976 – More dematiaceous hyphomycetes. Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Surrey, England.
Subramanian CV. 1957 – Two new species of Petrakia. Beihefte zur Sydowia 1, 14–15.
Subramanian CV. 1994 — Hyphomycetes from South East Asia – Novelties from Singapore and Malaysia. Kavaka 22/23,52–76.
Entry by
Omid Karimi, State Key Laboratory of Discovery and Utilization of Functional Components in Traditional Chinese Medicine & School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guizhou Medical University, Guian New District, Guizhou 550004, 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
Published online 28 July 2025