Fungalpedia – Note 2486, Helicosporium
Helicosporium Nees
Citation when using this data: Dong W et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank.
Classification: Tubeufiaceae, Tubeufiales, Incertae sedis, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Helicosporium is an old genus comprising over 100 epithets in Index Fungorum (2020). The generic concept of Helicosporium was redefined by Linder (1929) and Goos (1989) and recently reviewed by Lu et al. (2018b) who gave the latest update with additional collections and multi-gene phylogenetic analysis. Helicosporium setiferum Y.Z. Lu et al. was introduced by Lu et al. (2018b) to accommodate five freshwater isolates. The isolates BCC 3332 and BCC 8125 provided by Tsui et al. (2006b) lack morphological data, but phylogeny identified them as H. setiferum (Lu et al. 2018b). Thirteen species were accepted in Helicosporium (Lu et al. 2018b) and five of them were reported from freshwater habitats in Thailand.
Type species: Helicosporium vegetum Nees
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Helicosporium.
References
Goos RD 1989 – On the anamorph genera Helicosporium and Drepanospora. Mycologia 81:356–374.
Linder DH 1929 – A monograph of the helicosporous Fungi Imperfecti. Ann Missouri Bot 16:227–388.
Entry by
Wei Dong, Faculty of Agriculture and Food, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Innovative Agriculture Research Center, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, Institute of Plant Health, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Haizhu District, Guangzhou 510225, China
Published online 22 May 2026