Fungalpedia – Note 912, Letendraea

 

Letendraea. Sacc.

Citation when using this data Manawasinghe IS et al. 2022 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank., Fig 1

Classification: Didymosphaeriaceae, Pleosporales, Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Letendraea was introduced by Michelia (1880). This genus includes astromatic, brown-spored species of Nectria and L. eurotioides is the type species. Species of Letendraea are saprobic in terrestrial habitats, pathogenic associated with leaf spot disease in Cordyline sp. (Ariyawansa et al. 2014) and recorded from marine environments (Huang et al. 2019). There are 21 epithets in Index Fungorum (2021) of which five have molecular data (Tennakoon et al. 2021). 

Type species: Letendraea eurotioides Sacc., Michelia 2(no. 6): 73 (1880).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Letendraea.

 

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Figure 1 – Letendraea cordylinicola (ZHKUCC 21-0108, new host record). a–d Colony characters on PDA (a upper view; d reverse view). b–e Colony characters on MEA (b upper view; e reverse view). c–f Colony characters on OA (c upper view; f reverse view); g Mycelium. h–k Asci. l Ascospores. Scale bars: h–i = 25 μm, j–l = 10 μm.

 

References

Ariyawansa HA, Phookamsak R, Tibpromma S, Kang JC et al. 2014 – A molecular and morphological reassessment of Diademaceae. The Scientific World Journal. 675348, 1–11.

Huang R, Xu Y, Ye B, Ding W et al. 2019 – Letenketals A and B, two novel spirocyclic polyketides from a marine crab-derived Letendraea sp. fungus. Phytochemistry Letters 30, 165–168.

Index Fungorum. 2021 – http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/Names.asp (Accessed on October 30, 2021).

Tennakoon DS, Kuo CH, Maharachchikumbura SS, Thambugala KM et al. 2021 – Taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to Celtis formosana, Ficus ampelas, F. septica, Macaranga tanarius and Morus australis leaf litter inhabiting microfungi. Fungal Diversity 108, 1–215.

 

Entry by

Ishara Sandeepani Manawasinghe, Innovative Institute for Plant Health, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Guangzhou 510225, PR of China

Published online 25 April 2022

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