Fungalpedia – Note 3158, Goosiella
Goosiella Morgan-Jones, Kamal & R.K. Verma, Mycologia 78 (3): 496 (1986).
Citation when using this data: Jian Ma et al. 2024 – Fungalpedia.
Index Fungorum, Faceoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1.
Classification: Incertae sedis, Incertae sedis, Incertae sedis, Incertae sedis, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi.
Notes: Goosiella was established and introduced by Morgan-Jones et al. (1986), with G. helicospora as the type species. Currently, Goosiella comprises a single species, G. helicospora, which was found on ferns in India (Morgan-Jones et al. 1986). Goosiella is characterized by having dark brown, superficial, pseudoparenchymatous stromata, macronematous, mononematous, straight, erect, branched, pale brown to brown, septate conidiophores arranges singly or in small caespitose groups, monoblastic or polyblastic, terminal, cylindrical or clavate conidiogenous cells, and holoblastic, acrogenous, solitary, septate, curved or helicoid, hyaline conidia, with an obtuse apex and bearing a basal scar (Morgan-Jones et al. 1986). Goosiella differs from other helicosporous genera by having different conidiophores and conidia (Linder 1929; Zhao et al. 2007). Goosiella are morphologically similar to two species, Helicomina caperoniae and Hyalohelicomina deutziae, in having hyaline, helicoid conidia, but H. caperoniae and H. deutziae differ from Goosiella in producing curved, hyaline to pale brown, tooth-like protrusions conidiophores (Olive 1948; Yokoyama 1974).
Type species: Goosiella helicospora Morgan-Jones, Kamal & R.K. Verma, Mycologia 78 (3): 499 (1986).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Goosiella.
Figure 1 – (a) Goosiella helicospora (redrawn from Seifert et al. (2011)); (b) Helicoceras celtidis (redrawn from Linder (1931b)); (c) Helicofilia madrasensis (redrawn from Seifert et al. (2011)); (d) Helicogoosia paradoxa redrawn from (Seifert et al. (2011))
References
Olive LS. 1948 – Taxonomic notes on Louisiana fungi—I. Mycologia 40(1):6–20.
Yokoyama T. 1974 – Hyalohelicomina, a new genus of Hyphomycetes. Transactions of the Mycological Society of Japan 15(2):158–160.
Zhao G, Liu X, Wu W. 2007 – Helicosporous hyphomycetes from China. Fungal Diversity 26:313–524.
Entry by
Jian Ma, School of Food and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Guizhou Institute of Technology, Guiyang 550003, P.R. 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 10 September 2026