Fungalpedia – Note 1886, Lamproconiaceae
Lamproconiaceae Norph., T.C. Wen & K.D. Hyde
Citation when using this data: Hyde KD et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank.
Classification: Diaporthales, Diaporthomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Pathogenic and saprobic on dead herbaceous branches. Sexual morph: Stromata prosenchymatous around perithecia, delimited externally by greenish-blackened dense pseudoparenchymatous zone, interior whitish, composed of interwoven hyphae mixed with substrate cells, 3–5 ascomata in a stromata. Ascomata perithecial, small, aggregated, scattered, globose to subglobose, light brown to dark brown, coriaceous, ostiolate, papillate. Papilla converging and erumpent through stroma surface as single, large opening, wide at the top, narrowing towards the base, dark brown region around base of papilla. Peridium comprises light brown, compressed, cells of textura angularis. Asci 8-spored, unitunicate, cylindrical, short pedicellate, with a J-, apical ring. Ascospores uniseriate, broadly ellipsoid, 1-septate, not or lightly constricted at the septa, hyaline, smooth-walled. Asexual morph: Conidiomata pycnidial, solitary, partly immersed in host tissue, uniloculate, multilocular or convoluted, dark blue (Lamproconium), dark blackish brown (Hercospora), erumpent in the centre. Pycnidium thick-walled, thin at inner layer, hyaline (Lamproconium), dark brown (Hercospora), comprising wall cells of textura angularis (Lamproconium) or textura intricate (Hercospora). Ostiole absent, dehiscence irregular. Paraphyses interspersed within conidiophores. Conidiophores filiform or cylindrical, pale-bluish or hyaline, septate, branched, smooth-walled, formed at the base of conidiomatal wall. Conidiogenous cells holoblastic, cylindrical to subcylindrical, each forming a single conidium at the conidiophore apex, or annellidic, colourless to olivaceous, smooth-walled. Conidia fusiform, ellipsoid, thickwalled, with granular, contents granular, aseptate, bluish to glistening dark blue (Lamproconium), hyaline (Hercospora), smooth-walled, produced in mucilage but without a distinct mucilaginous envelope or appendage (adapted from Norphanphoun et al. 2016).
Notes: Lamproconiaceae was established by Norphanphoun et al. (2016) to accommodate Lamproconium and Hercospora, based on morphology and phylogenetic analyses. Lamproconiaceae forms a robust clade basal to Sydowiellaceae and Stilbosporaceae in the combined ITS and LSU phylogeny and the conidia differ from those of Sydowiellaceae and Stilbosporaceae (Norphanphoun et al. 2016, Senanayake et al. 2017b).
Type genus: Lamproconium (Grove) Grove
References
Entry by
Kevin David Hyde, Institute of Plant Health, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Haizhu District, Guangzhou 510225, P.R. China, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, Mushroom Research Foundation, 128 M.3 Ban Pa Deng T. Pa Pae, A. Mae Taeng, Chiang Mai 50150, Thailand, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China, School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, World Agroforestry Centre, East and Central Asia, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China
Published online 5 March 2026