Fungalpedia – Note 2148, Falciformispora

 

Falciformispora. K.D. Hyde.

Citation when using this data: Hongsanan S et al. 2020 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

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Classification: Trematosphaeriaceae, Pleosporales, Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

 

Notes – Falciformispora was introduced for a single species found on intertidal mangrove wood. This genus is unique in having subglobose to ovoid, erumpent and eventually superficial ascomata by sloughing off of the upper woody cells, asci arising from ascogenous tissue at the base of the ascoma, and hyaline, straight or slightly curved, 6-(7)-8-septate ascospores, that are slightly constricted at the septa and surrounded by a thin mucilaginous sheath and a single scythe-like appendage at the base (Hyde 1992). There are four species within this genus with sequence data, F. lignatilis, F. senegalensis, F. tompkinsii and F. uttaraditensis, and their placement within Trematosphaeriaceae is clear (Ahmed et al. 2014b, Hyde et al. 2020b).

 

Type species: Falciformispora lignatilis K.D. Hyde, Mycol. Res. 96(1): 27 (1992).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Falciformispora.

 

References

Ahmed SA, van de Sande WWJ, Stevens DA, Fahal A et al. 2014b – Revision of agents of black-grain eumycetoma in the order Pleosporales. Persoonia 33, 141–154.

Hyde KD, Dong Y, Phookamsak R, Jeewon R et al. 2020b – Fungal diversity notes 1151–1276: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions on genera and species of fungal taxa. Fungal Divers: 100, 5–277.

Hyde KD. 1992c – Julella avicenniae (Borse) comb. nov. (Thelenellaceae) from intertidal mangrove wood and miscellaneous fungi from the NE coast of Queensland. Mycological Research 96, 939–942.

 

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 23 March 2026 

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