Fungalpedia – Note 2438, Jalapriya
Jalapriya. M.J. D’souza, Hong Y. Su, Z.L. Luo & K.D. Hyde.
Citation when using this data: Dong W et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1
Classification: Dictyosporiaceae, Pleosporales, Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Saprobic on decaying wood in freshwater or terrestrial habitats. Sexual morph: Undetermined. Asexual morph: Hyphomycetous. Colonies effuse, dark brown to black. Mycelium immersed or partly superficial, consisting of branched, septate, smooth, subhyaline to pale brown hyphae. Conidiophores micronematous, unbranched, thin-walled, smooth, cylindrical. Conidiogenous cells holoblastic, integrated, determinate, terminal. Conidia acrogenous, solitary, cheiroid, complanate or non-complanate, smooth-walled, euseptate, with 5–7 rows of cells, rows converging or divergent at the apex, apical cells with or without appendages (Boonmee et al. 2016).
Notes: Jalapriya was introduced to accommodate a new freshwater species J. pulchra and two new combinations of species from terrestrial habitats (Boonmee et al. 2016). The cheirosporous genera are morphologically very similar in the family and Jalapriya was established based on multigene phylogenetic analyses (Boonmee et al. 2016). Jalapriya pulchra is distinctive based on its complanate conidia with hyaline appendages on the apical cells.
Type species: Jalapriya pulchra M.J. D’souza, H.Y. Su, Z.L. Luo & K.D. Hyde
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Speira.
Figure 1 – Jalapriya pulchra (Material examined: CHINA, Yunnan Province, Dali, Cangshan Mountain, Lingquan stream, on submerged wood, March 2014, Z. Li, LQXM 47–1(S-013), HKAS 83979, holotype). a Colonies on submerged wood. b–f Conidia. Scale bars: b = 10 μm, c–f = 20 μm
References
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Wei Dong, Faculty of Agriculture and Food, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Innovative Agriculture Research Center, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, Institute of Plant Health, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Haizhu District, Guangzhou 510225, China
Published online 22 May 2026