Fungalpedia – Note 799, Erythrocarpon
Erythrocarpon Zukal
Citation when using this data: Huang SK et al. 2021 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 8g–k
Classification: Ceratostomataceae, Melanosporales, Hypocreomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Saprobic on wood. Sexual morph: Ascomata perithecial, solitary, superficial, globose, reddish brown, membranaceous, surrounded by septate, filiform hyphae, ostiolate. Peridium composed of brown to hyaline cells of textura angularis. Asci 8-spored, unitunicate, cylindrical. Ascospores uni-seriate, hyaline to reddish brown, broadly fusiform to ellipsoidal, with germ pore at each end, aseptate, smooth-walled, with guttules. Asexual morph (associated): Hyphomycetous. Conidiophores mononematous, erect, hyaline to brown, septate, branched. Conidia hyaline to brown, fusiform and 0–4-septate, or globose to subglobose and aseptate, or stellated, verrucose (adapted from Zukal 1885).
Notes – The monotypic Erythrocarpon was introduced by Zukal (1885) and is characterized by reddish brown, hairy and globose ascomata with broadly fusiform, reddish brown ascospores with germ pore at each end (Zukal 1885). It has two types of accompanied asexual morph on natural substrate, one has fusiform, septate conidia, and the other has globose or stellate, verrucose conidia (Zukal 1885).
Type species: Erythrocarpon microstomum Zukal, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 35: 337 (1886).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Erythrocarpon.
Figure 1 – Melanospora theleboloides: a–d (G-326774/1-G00127866, holotype). a Material. b Crushed ascomata. c Immature asci. d ascospores; Pustulipora corticola: e–f (redrawn from Cannon 1982). e Ascus. f Ascospores; Erythrocarpon microstomum: g–k (redrawn from Zukal 1885). g Ascoma cross section. h Ascus. i Ascospores. j–k Two types of conidiophores with conidia; Microthecium zobelii: l (redrawn from Corda 1842, Udagawa & Cain 1969). l Ascospores. Microthecium foveolatum: m–n (redrawn from Hawksworth & Udagawa 1977). m Ascospores with irregular ridges. n Conidiophores with conidia. Scale bars: g = 200 µm, b = 100 µm, e, k = 50 µm, c–d, f, h, j, l = 20 µm, i, m–n = 10 µm.
References
Cannon PF. 1982 – Pustulipora, a new genus of the Melanosporaceae. Mycotaxon 15, 523–528.
Corda ACJ. 1842 – Icones fungorum hucusque cognitorum. Prague 5, 1–92.
Hawksworth DL, Udagawa S. 1977 – Contributions to a monograph of Microthecium. Transactions of the Mycological Society of Japan 18, 143–154.
Zukal H. 1885 – Ueber einige neue Pilze, Myxomyceten und Bakterien. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 35, 333–342.
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