Fungalpedia – Note 793, Gaillardiella
Gaillardiella Pat.
Citation when using this data: Huang SK et al. 2021 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1
Classification: Bertiaceae ,Coronophorales, Hypocreomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Saprobic on wood. Sexual morph: Ascomata gregarious, superficial to erumpent, globose to subglobose, coriaceous, dark brown to black, tuberculate, glabrous, collapsing or not, with ostioles or a short papillate ostiole-like structure, without an external opening. Peridium composed of coriaceous to membranaceous, brown to hyaline cells of textura angularis to textura prismatica, sometimes with Munk pores. Paraphyses filiform. Asci 8-spored, unitunicate, cylindrical to clavate, long pedicellate, apical ring indistinct or absent. Ascospores 2–3-seriate or irregularly arranged, hyaline to brown, ellipsoidal to clavate, 0–1-septate, smooth-walled, mostly with guttules. Asexual morph: Undetermined (adapted from Patouillard & Lagerheim 1895, Mugambi & Huhndorf 2010).
Notes – Gaillardiella was placed in Bertiaceae because it has tuberculate ascomata and ellipsoidal to fusiform ascospores similar to Bertia, and its generic type, G. pezizoides, nests with Bertia based on phylogenetic results (Patouillard & Lagerheim 1895, Huhndorf et al. 2004b, Mugambi & Huhndorf 2010).
Type species: Gaillardiella pezizoides Pat., in Patouillard & Lagerheim, Bull. Soc. Mycol. France 11(4): 226 (1895).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Gaillardiella.
Figure 1 – Gaillardiella pezizoides: (F-SMH2070). a Material. b Ascoma on wood. c Ascoma cross section. d–e Peridium (arrow points to Munk pores). f–g Asci. h Ascospores (arrow points to germ pore). Scale bars: b–c = 500 µm, d = 200 µm, e–g = 50 µm, h = 20 µm.
References
Patouillard NT, Lagerheim Gd. 1895 – Champignons de l’Équateur (Pugillus V). Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France 11(4), 205–234.
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