Fungalpedia – Note 3123, Lambertella

 

Lambertella Höhn., Sitzungsber. Kaiserl. Akad. Wiss., Wien. Math.-Naturwiss. Cl., Abt. 1 127 (4-5): 375 (1918).

Citation when using this data: Jian Ma et al. 2024 – Fungalpedia.

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Classification: Rutstroemiaceae, Helotiales, Leotiomycetidae, Leotiomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi.

Notes: Lambertella was established by Höhnel (1918), with L. corni-maris as the type species. Index Fungorum (2024) lists 83 species epithets, with L. tubulosa being the only helicosporous hyphomycete taxon within Lambertella (Abdullah and Webster 1981). This species was initially introduced as Helicodendron tubulosum (Linder 1929; Glen-Bott 1955) and subsequently synonymized as Lambertella tubulosa based on their similar morphological descriptions, except for the production of phialides and phialoconidia in L. tubulosa (3589) (Glen-Bott 1955; Abdullah and Webster 1981). Lambertella tubulosa was founded in dead leaves, dead twigs, and soil in both freshwater and terrestrial habitats (Glen-Bott 1955; Abdullah and Webster 1981). The asexual morph of Lambertella tubulosa has phialides, septate conidiophores, and hyaline, sparsely branched, multi-septate, coiled conidia (Glen-Bott 1955; Abdullah and Webster 1981). It is important to note that Helicodendron triglitziense, Lambertella tubulosa, and Mollisia gigantea all exhibit phialides shapes of (Glen-Bott 1951, 1955), but they belong to three different families (Fisher and Webster 1983; Lu and Kang 2020).

Type species: Lambertella corni-maris Höhn., Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften Math.-naturw. Klasse Abt. I 127: 375 [47 repr.] (1918).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Lambertella.

 

Figure 1 – (a) Lambertella tubulosa (redrawn from Abdullah and Webster (1981)), a phialides. b, c Conidia. Scale bars: b = 40 µm, a, c = 20 µm; (b) Helicodendron fuscum (redrawn from Voglmayr and Fisher (1997)), a Conidiophore with attached conidia. b Conidia. Scale bars: a, b = 50 µm; (c) Mollisia gigantea (redrawn from Glen-Bott (1951)). Scale bars: 50 µm; (d) Spirosphaera floriformis (redrawn from Seifert et al. (2011)).

 

References

Abdullah SK, Webster J. 1981 – Lambertella tubulosa sp. nov., teleomorph of Helicodendron tubulosum. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 76(2):261–263.

Fisher P, Webster J. 1983 – The teleomorphs of Helicodendron giganteum and H. paradoxum. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 81(3):656–659.

Glen-Bott JI. 1951 – Helicodendron giganteum n. sp. and other aerial-sporing Hyphomycetes of submerged dead leaves. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 34(3):275–279.

Glen-Bott JI. 1955 – On Helicodendron tubulosum and some similar species. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 38(1):17–30.

Höhnel F. 1918 – Fragmente zur Mykologie (XXI. Mitteilung, Nr. 1058 bis 1091). Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften Math-naturw Klasse Abt 127:329–393.

Linder DH. 1929 – A monograph of the helicosporous fungi imperfecti. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 16(3):227–388.

Lu YZ, Kang JC. 2020 – Research progress on helicosporous hyphomycetes. Journal of Fungal Research 18(4):304–314.

 

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 10 September 2026

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