Fungalpedia – Note 3129, Hiogispora

 

Hiogispora Abdel-Wahab & Nagah., Mycological Progress 9 (4): 556 (2010).

Citation when using this data: Jian Ma et al. 2024 – Fungalpedia.

Index Fungorum, Faceoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1.

Classification: Incertae sedis, Lulworthiales, Lulworthiomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi.

Notes: Hiogispora was established by Abdel-Wahab et al. (2010), with H. japonica as the type species based on morphology and phylogenetic analyses of the combined LSU and SSU sequence data. Currently, Hiogispora comprises a single species, H. japonica (formerly known as Cirrenalia japonica), which was found from Abies homolepis in Japan (Abdel-Wahab et al. 2010). Hiogispora is characterized by fasciculate, simple or branched, pale-brown, and septate conidiophores that are often inflated, monoblastic, integrated, terminal, determinate conidiogenous cells that are frequently inflated, and acrogenous, solitary, dry, helicoid, reddish brown, dictyoseptate conidia (Abdel-Wahab et al. 2010). Furthermore, Hiogispora can be distinguished from other helicoid genera by having dictyoseptate conidia and conidiophores with inflated cells in a stroma (Abdel-Wahab et al. 2010).

Type species: Hiogispora japonica (Sugiy.) Abdel-Wahab & Nagah., Mycological Progress 9 (4): 557 (2010).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Hiogispora.

Figure 1 – (a) Zalerion maritima (redrawn from Seifert et al. (2011)); (b) Halazoon melhae (redrawn from Abdel-Wahab et al. (2010)), a, b Conidiophore with attached conidia. c, d Conidia. Scale bars: a–d = 10 µm; (c) Cumulospora marina (redrawn from Seifert et al. (2011)); (d) Hiogispora japonica (redrawn from Goos (1985b)). a, b Conidiophores and conidia. Scale bars: a, b = 10 μm

 

References

Abdel-Wahab MA, Pang KL, Nagahama T, Abdel-Aziz FA et al. 2010 – Phylogenetic evaluation of anamorphic species of Cirrenalia and Cumulospora with the description of eight new genera and four new species. Mycological Progress 9:537–558.

 

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

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