Fungalpedia – Note 494, Etheirophoraceae

 

Etheirophoraceae Rungjind., Somrith. & Suetrong

Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomata.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1 

Classification: Etheirophoraceae, Incertae sedis, Hypocreomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi.

Etheirophoraceae was introduced by Jones et al. (2014) to accommodate Etheirophora as the type genus. This family members are commonly found as saprobes in intertidal wood and bark in marine habitats (Jones et al. 2014, Maharachchikumbura et al. 2015). The sexual morph is subglobose to globose or pyriform, immersed, clypeate, coriaceous, ostiolate, periphysate ascomata, unitunicate, cylindrical to oblong, pedicellate, J-, persistent asci and 1–2-seriate, hyaline, ellipsoidal, 1 to many septate ascospores with a filamentous appendage at one or both ends (Jones et al. 2014). However, the asexual-sexual link has not yet been determined. Currently, only two genera are accepted in Etheirophoraceae: viz. Etheirophora and Swampomyces (Wijayawardene et al. 2020). Nuclear SSU and LSU DNA molecular markers have been used to elucidate the phylogenetic position of this family (Jones et al. 2014).

Type genus: Etheirophora Kohlm. & Volkm.-Kohlm.

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Etheirophoraceae

 

Figure 1 – Etheirophora bijubata. a Ascoma with long ostiole. b Ascus with paraphysis. c-e Ascospores (e = Etheirophora unijubafa). Scale bars: a = 25 μm, b = 10 μm, c-e = 5 μm. Redrawn from Kohlmeyer & Volkmann-Kohlmeyer (1989).

 

References

Jones EBG, Suetrong S, Cheng WH, Rungjindamai N et al. 2014 – An additional fungal lineage in the Hypocreomycetidae (Falcocladium species) and the taxonomic revaluation of Chaetosphaeria chaetosa and Swampomyces species, based on morphology, ecology and phylogeny. Cryptogamie Mycologie 35, 119–138.

Kohlmeyer J, Volkmann-Kohlmeyer B. 1989 – Hawaiian marine fungi, including two new genera of Ascomycotina. Mycological Research 92(4), 410–421.

Maharachchikumbura SSN, Hyde KD, Jones EBG, McKenzie EHC et al. 2015 – Towards a natural classification and backbone tree for Sordariomycetes. Fungal Diversity 72, 199–301.

Wijayawardene NN, Hyde KD, Al-Ani LKT, Tedersoo L et al. 2020 − Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa. Mycosphere 11, 1060–1456.

 

Entry by 

Tennakoon DS, Bioengineering and Technological Research Centre for Edible and Medicinal Fungi, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China.

 

(Edited by Saowaluck Tibpromma, Samaneh Chaharmiri-Dokhaharani, & Achala R. Rathnayaka)

 

Published online 3 December 2024

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