Fungalpedia – Note 1071, Kamalomyces

 

Kamalomyces R.K. Verma, N. Sharma & Soni

Citation when using this data: Dayarathne MC et al. 2020 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1

Classification: Tubeufiaceae, Tubeufiales, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Verma et al. (2008) introduced the genus Kamalomyces which is typified by K. indicus. Ascomata on a subiculum of black hyphae, with solitary, gregarious, subglobose to lemoniform ascomata with short stalks and lacking ostioles, bitunicate, broadly cylindrical to clavate asci and hyaline, vermiform, crowded, septate ascospores are the characteristic features of Kamalomyces (Verma et al. 2008, Boonmee et al. 2011, 2014, Phookamsak et al. 2018, Lu et al. 2018a, b). Kamalomyces currently comprises six species and phylogenetic relationship of Kamalomyces was reported by Phookamsak et al. (2018). In this study, we introduce a new record for the recently introduced K. mangrovei collected from Xylocarpus sp.

Type species: Kamalomyces mangrovei Dayarathne & K.D. Hyde, in Hyde et al., Fungal Divers.: 96:1–242 (2019).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Kamalomyces.

 

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Figure 1 – Kamalomyces mangrovei (MFLU 18-0550). a, b Ascomata. c Peridium. d Section through ascoma. e–f Asci. g Psudoparaphyses. h–k Ascospores. Scale bars: d = 100 μm, e–f = 50 μm, c, g–j = 20 μm.

 

References

Boonmee S, Rossman AY, Liu JK, Li WJ et al. 2014 – Tubeufiales, ord. nov., integrating sexual and asexual generic names. Fungal Diversity 68, 239–298.

Boonmee S, Zhang Y, Chomnunti P, Chukeatirote E et al. 2011 – Revision of lignicolous Tubeufiaceae based on morphological reexamination and 6979 phylogenetic analysis. Fungal Diversity 51, 63–102.

Lu YZ, Boonmee S, Liu JK, Hyde KD et al. 2018a – Multi-gene phylogenetic analyses reveals Neohelicosporium gen. nov. and five new species of helicosporous hyphomycetes from aquatic habitats. Mycological Progress 17, 631–646. 

Lu YZ, Liu JKJ, Hyde KD, Jeewon R. et al. 2018b – A taxonomic reassessment of Tubeufiales based on multi-locus phylogeny and morphology. Fungal Diversity 92, 131–344.

Phookamsak R, Lu YZ, Hyde KD, Jeewon R et al. 2018 – Phylogenetic characterization of two novel Kamalomyces species in Tubeufiaceae (Tubeufiales) Mycological Progress 17, 647– 660.

Verma RK, Sharma N, Soni KK. 2008 – Forest fungi of Central India. Jamaluddin 11–418.

 

Entry by

Monika Dayarathne, 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, World Agro forestry Centre East and Central Asia Office, 132 Lanhei Road, Kunming 650201, China, Key Laboratory for Plant Biodiversity and Biogeography of East Asia (KLPB), Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China

 

Published online 13 January 2020

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