Fungalpedia – Note 2229, Houjia

 

Houjia G.Y. Sun & Crous

Citation when using this data: Hongsanan S et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

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Classification: Mycosphaerellaceae, Mycosphaerellales, Dothideomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Houjia was found on surface of apples by Yang et al. (2010). It is an asexual hyphomycetous genus of Phaeothecoidiellaceae based on phylogenetic analyses (Hongsanan et al. 2017, this study). Houjia is characterised by branched, septate hyphae, conidiophores reduced to conidiogenous cells, monoblastic, solitary conidiogenous cells that are not aggregated in clusters, and broadly ellipsoid to subcylindrical or obclavate, medium brown, euseptate conidia, tapering to a cuneiform base with a truncate hilum (Yang et al. 2010).

Type species: Houjia yanglingensis G.Y. Sun & Crous, in Yang et al., Persoonia 24: 34 (2010).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Houjia.

 

References

Hongsanan S, Zhao RL, Hyde KD. 2017 – A new species of Chaetothyrina on branches of mango, and introducing Phaeothecoidiellaceae fam. nov. Mycosphere 8, 137–146.

Yang HL, Sun GY, Batzer JC, Crous PW et al. 2010 – Novel fungal genera and species associated with the sooty blotch and flyspeck complex on apple in China and the United States. Persoonia 24, 29–37.

 

Entry by

Sinang Hongsanan, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for Plant Epigenetics, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Microbial Genetic Engineering, College of Life Science and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, People’s Republic of China, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50002, Thailand 

 

Published online 25 March 2026

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