Fungalpedia – Note 3097, Hyalohelicotubeufia
Hyalohelicotubeufia J. Ma, K.D. Hyde & Y.Z. Lu.
Citation when using this data: Jian Ma et al. 2024 – Fungalpedia.
Index Fungorum, Faceoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1.
Classification: Tubeufiaceae, Tubeufiales, Incertae sedis, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi.
Etymology: “Hyalo-” refers to hyaline helicoid conidia of this fungus. “-helicotubeufia” refers to the genus morphologically similar to the helicosporous asexual morphs of Helicoma and Tubeufia.
Saprobic on rotten wood in a terrestrial habitat. Sexual morph Undetermined. Asexual morph Hyphomycetous, helicosporous. Colonies sparse. Conidiophores macronematous, mononematous, erect, short, flexuous, fuscous, except the hyaline, somewhat inflated, terminal cell. Conidiogenous cells holoblastic, monoblastic, integrated, terminal, hyaline. Conidia solitary, dry, acrogenous, helicoid, tapering towards the rounded ends, obliquely flattened basal ends, with salient, more or less wrinkled septa, coiled 2–3 times, hyaline, smooth-walled.
Type species: Hyalohelicotubeufia acrophalerium (Moore) J. Ma, K.D. Hyde & Y.Z. Lu.
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Hyalohelicotubeufia.
Figure 1 – Hyalohelicotubeufia acrophalerium (redrawn from Moore 1957). a Conidiophores, conidiogenous cells and conidia. Scale bars: a = 10 μm
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 3 September 2026