Fungalpedia – Note 827, Loranitschkia
Loranitschkia Lar.N. Vassiljeva
Citation when using this data: Huang SK et al. 2021 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1 i
Classification: Nitschkiaceae, Coronophorales, Hypocreomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Saprobic on wood. Sexual morph: Ascomata scattered to gregarious, superficial, sitting on thin subiculum, pyriform to subglobose, tuberculate, black, the apex collapsing when dry, lacking ostioles. Peridium composed of brown to hyaline cells of porous texture. Paraphyses absent. Asci 8-spored, unitunicate, clavate, apex rounded, apical ring inconspicuous, pedicellate, evanescent. Ascospores bi-seriate, hyaline, clavate, with one middle septum, apex rounded, attenuated in a filiform, flagella-like, sometimes 1-septate appendage at base, smooth-walled, guttulate. Asexual morph: Undetermined (adapted from Vasilyeva et al. 2010).
Notes – The monotypic Loranitschkia was introduced by Vasilyeva (1990) from Russia, and it is characterized by tuberculate ascomata, clavate asci and clavate ascospores with a long flagella-like appendage (Vasilyeva et al. 2010). This genus is placed in Nitschkiaceae based on the characteristics of ascomata similar to Nitschkia (Vasilyeva et al. 2010).
Type species: Loranitschkia viticola Lar.N. Vassiljeva [as ‘Loranitschki’], Mikol. Fitopatol. 24(3): 207 (1990).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Loranitschkia.
Figure 1 – Biciliosporina karwarensis: a–b (IMI-IMI324681, holotype); c–e (redrawn from Subramanian & Sekar 1990). a Material. b Collapsed ascomata on the host. c Sectional view of ascoma. d Asci. e Ascospores; Syspastospora parasitica: f (redrawn from Cannon & Hawksworth 1982). f Ascospores; Scopinella barbata: g–h (redrawn from Hawksworth 1975). g Ascus. h Ascospores; Loranitschkia viticola: i (redrawn from Vasilyeva et al. 2010). i Asci and ascospores; Botryola tetrasperma: j (redrawn from Batista et al. 1964). j Asci and ascospores; Setiferotheca nipponica: k–m (redrawn from Matsushima 1995). k Peridium with setae. l Asci. m Ascospores; Janannfeldtia karwarensis: n (redrawn from Subramanian & Sekar 1990). n Asci and ascospores; Vittatispora coorgii: o–q (redrawn from Chaudhary et al. 2006). o Ascoma. p Ascus. q Ascospores; Rhagadostomella gregaria: r–s (redrawn from Etayo 2002). r Ascospores. s Asci; Neochaetosphaerella thaxteriospora: t (redrawn from Vasilyeva et al. 2012). t Ascus and ascospores; Tortulomyces thailandicus: u (redrawn from Vasilyeva et al. 2013). u Ascus and ascospores. Scale bars: b = 500 µm, c, k, o = 200 µm, i = 50 µm, d, j, n, s–u = 20 µm, e, g, l, r = 10 µm, h, m, p–q = 5 µm, f = 2 µm.
References
Batista AC, Bezerra JL, Castrillon AL, da Matta EAF. 1964 – Novos Ascomycetos foliícolas e caulinares. Publicações do Instituto de Micologia da Universidade do Recife 431, 1–22.
Etayo J. 2002 – Aportación al conocimiento de los hongos liquenícolas de Colombia. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 84, 1–154.
Matsushima T. 1995 – Matsushima Mycological Memoires 8. Matsushima Mycological Memoirs 8, 1–44.
Subramanian CV, Sekar G. 1990 – Coronophorales from India-a monograph. Kavaka 18, 19–90.
Vasilyeva LN. 1990 – New pyrenomycetous species from Kunashir. Mikologiya i Fitopatologiya 24, 207–210.
Entry by
Shi-Ke Huang, State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China, The Engineering Research Center of Southwest Bio-Pharmaceutical Resources, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, Guizhou Province, 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, The Mushroom Research Centre, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
Published online 14 September 2021