Fungalpedia – Note 1170, Humicola
Humicola Traaen
Citation when using this data: Hyde KD et al. 2020 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
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Classification: Chaetomiaceae, Sordariales, Sordariomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Humicola was introduced by Traaen (1914) to accommodate two species, H. fuscoatra and H. grisea. A comprehensive study by Wang et al. (2019b) revised the phylogenetic status of the genus. The genus is characterised sexual morphs with superficial, ostiolate ascomata covered by aerial hyphae. Terminal hairs are seta-like, flexuous, undulate, coiled or arcuate with apices incurved to coiled. Asci are clavate, early evanescent and ascospores are limoniform to quadrangular, bilaterally flattened, with an apical germ pore. Asexual morphs producing conidia arise laterally, intercalary or terminally from hyphae without differentiated conidiophores, sometimes together with acremonium-like conidiophores, occasionally only acremonium-like conidiophores are produced.
Type species: Humicola fuscoatra Traaen.
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Humicola.
References
Traaen AE. 1914 – Untersuchungen über Bodenpilze aus Norwegen. Nytt Magazin for Naturvidenskapene 52, 1–121.
Entry by
Kevin David Hyde, Institute of Plant Health, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Haizhu District, Guangzhou 510225, P.R. China, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, Mushroom Research Foundation, 128 M.3 Ban Pa Deng T. Pa Pae, A. Mae Taeng, Chiang Mai 50150, Thailand, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China, School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, World Agroforestry Centre, East and Central Asia, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China
Published online 28 February 2020