Fungalpedia – Note 801, Harzia

 

Harzia Costantin

Citation when using this data: Huang SK et al. 2021 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

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Classification: Ceratostomataceae, Melanosporales, Hypocreomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Saprobic on wood or leaves or isolated from soil. Sexual morph: Undetermined. Asexual morph: Hyphomycetous. Mycelium composed of hyaline, smooth-walled, branched, septate hyphae. Conidiophores mononematous, macronematous, hyaline, subcylindrical to cylindrical, erect, 0–multi-septate, tapering, smooth-walled. Conidia terminal to intercalary, solitary, obovoid to ellipsoidal, sometimes with a raised rim at base, aseptate, holoblastic, hyaline to brown, smooth to verrucose (adapted from Saccardo 1886, Costantin 1888, Poursafar et al. 2017, Crous et al. 2019b).

Notes – The hyphomycetous Harzia was considered to be related to members of Hypocreales (Maharachchikumbura et al. 2016, Wijayawardene et al. 2018), until Schultes et al. (2017) clarified the species in this genus based on molecular information and accepted Harzia as a member in Ceratostomataceae. In this study, Harzia species are sister to Melanospora (100%ML/1.00BY) in Ceratostomataceae, except for Harzia velata which nests in Nectriaceae (Hypocreales) (100%ML/1.00BY).

Type species: Harzia acremonioides (Harz) Costantin, Mucéd. Simpl. (Paris): 42 (1888).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Harzia.

 

References

Costantin J. 1888 – Les mucédinées simples. Histoire, classification, culture et rôle des champignons inférieurs dans les maladies des végétaux et des animaux. Paris: P. Klincksieck.

Crous PW, Wingfield MJ, Lombard L, Roets F et al. 2019b – Fungal Planet description sheets: 951–1041. Persoonia 43, 223–425.

Maharachchikumbura SSN, Hyde KD, Jones EBG, McKenzie EHC et al. 2016 – Families of sordariomycetes. Fungal Diversity 79, 1–317.

Poursafar A, Ghosta Y, Javan-Nikkhah M. 2017 – Harzia acremonioides, new species for mycobiota of Iran. Rostaniha 18(1), 104–106.

Saccardo PA. 1886 – Sylloge Hyphomycetum. Sylloge Fungorum 4, 1–807.

Schultes NP, Murtishi B, Li DW. 2017 – Phylogenetic relationships of Chlamydomyces, Harzia, Olpitrichum, and their sexual allies, Melanospora and Sphaerodes. Fungal biology 121(10), 890–904.

Wijayawardene NN, Hyde KD, Lumbsch HT, Liu JK et al. 2018 – Outline of ascomycota: 2017. Fungal Diversity 88, 167–263.

 

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

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