Fungalpedia – Note 1045, Lichenodiplis
Lichenodiplis Dyko & D. Hawksw.
Citation when using this data: Tian Q et al. 2021 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
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Classification: Incertae sedis, Incertae sedis, Incertae sedis, Incertae sedis, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Saprobic on dead twigs of various plants in terrestrial habitats. Sexual morph: Undetermined. Asexual morph: Coelomycetous. Conidiomata pycnidial, scattered, immersed to erumpent, unilocular, globose to subglobose or slightly obpyriform, black, opening by an irregular pore. Conidiomata wall several layers, composed of hyaline to brown paraplectenchymatous cells. Conidiophores reduced to conidiogenous cells. Conidiogenous cells integrated, terminal, determinate, phialidic, simple to strongly branched, lageniform to cylindrical, pale olivaceous brown to brown, smooth-walled. Conidia solitary, acrogenous, ellipsoidal, with truncate base and a persistent marginal frill, subhyaline to pale brown, 1-septate, straight or curved, smooth-walled or verrucose-walled at maturity (Hawksworth & Dyko 1979).
Notes: Lichenodiplis Dyko & D. Hawksw. was originally assigned to Sphaeropsidales Bessey (Hawksworth & Dyko 1979), an order traditionally used for asexual taxa with pycnidial conidiomata. The lichenicolous genera, Lichenodiplis and Muellerella may be sexual and asexual morphs. Lichenodiplis lecanorae formed a monophyletic clade, sister to Epibryon (Epibryaceae) in Chaetothyriales. The morphology of Lichenodiplis does not fit with other related families and therefore we place this lichenized coelomycetous genus in Chaetothyriales.
Type species: Lichenodiplis lecanorae (Vouaux) Dyko & D. Hawksw., Lichenologist 11(1): 52 (1979).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Lichenodiplis.
References
Entry by
Qing Tian, 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 16 December 2021