Infundichalara

Fungalpedia – Note 3024, Infundichalara

Infundichalara. Réblová & W. Gams.

Citation when using this data: Wenping Wu et al. 2023 – Fungalpedia.

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Classification: Hamatocanthoscyphaceae, Helotiales, Leotiomycetidae, Leotiomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Anamorph: Conidiophores brown, often arising from dark fascicles of vegetative hyphae, either as simple phialides or with additional septa. Conidiogenous cells phialidic, pigmented mainly in the lower part, subhyaline towards the apex, often sympodially proliferating, tapered slightly below the collarette, collarette funnel-shaped. Conidia hyaline, smooth-walled, clavate, with a truncate base, rounded apically, cohering in long chains. Chlamydospores absent (Adapted from Réblová et al. 2011). Teleomorph: Unknown.

Ecology/substrate/host: Saprobe on leaves, dead wood and cone of coniferous tree, and basidiomata of polyporales.

Geographical distribution: Austria, Canada, China, Denmark, Netherland and UK.

Description and illustration: Réblová et al. (2011).

Notes: Infundichalara was created for a single species Chalara microchona W. Gams, which was different from other known chalara-like genera in morphology and phylogeny (Nag Raj and Kendrick 1975; McKenzie et al. 2002; Réblová et al. 2011). Morphologically it differs from other chalara-like genera in producing funnel-shaped collarettes, and non-endogenous, clavate conidia. The genus was known with two species, the type species and I. minuta (Réblová et al. 2011; Koukol 2012). Our phylogenetic analyses (Fig. 118; Wenping Wu et al. 2023) showed that these two species were closely related to three known teleomorphic species, Ciliolarina ligniseda, C. pinicola, and Hamatocanthoscypha unicipila.