Fungalpedia – Note 2323, Libertasomyces
Libertasomyces. Crous & Roets.
Citation when using this data: Hongsanan S et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
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Classification: Libertasomycetaceae, Pleosporales, Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Notes – The type of Libertasomyces was collected on twigs of Myoporum serratum in Western Cape Province, South Africa (Crous et al. 2016b). The genuns is characterized by erumpent, dark brown conidiomata, with conidiogenous cells lining the inner cavity, hyaline, smooth, ampulliform to doliiform, phialidic with prominent periclinal thickening, and hyaline, granular, ellipsoid, aseptate (muriformly in L. quercus) conidia, with an obtuse apex (Crous et al. 2016b). ITS and LSU sequence data are available for this genus.
Type species: Libertasomyces myopori Crous & Roets, in Crous et al., Persoonia 36: 375 (2016).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Libertasomyces.
Figure 1 – Libertasomyces quercus (redrawn from Crous & Groenewald 2017, CBS 134.97). a Conidiogenous cells. b Conidia. Scale bar: a, b = 10 μm.
References
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Sinang Hongsanan, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for Plant Epigenetics, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Microbial Genetic Engineering, College of Life Science and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, People’s Republic of China, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50002, Thailand
Published online 17 April 2026