Fungalpedia – Note 2330, Magnicamarosporium
Magnicamarosporium. Kaz. Tanaka & K. Hiray.
Citation when using this data: Hongsanan S et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1
Classification: Bambusicolaceae, Pleosporales, Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Notes – Magnicamarosporium is characterised by pycnidial conidiomata and subglobose to obovoid or at times muriform dark brown euseptate conidia (Tanaka et al. 2015, Phukhamsakda et al. 2017). The genus closely resembles Camarosporium in its muriform brown conidia, but Magnicamarosporium possesses larger conidiomata along with a conspicuous ostiole, long paraphyses with mucilaginous coating, and larger conidia (Tanaka et al. 2015). Magnicamarosporium belongs to Sulcatisporaceae while Camarosporium is accommodated in Pleosporineae (Crous et al. 2015b).
Type species: Magnicamarosporium iriomotense Kaz. Tanaka & K. Hiray., Stud. Mycol. 82: 120 (2015).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Magnicamarosporium.
Figure 1 – Magnicamarosporium diospyricola (MFLU 17-0001, holotype). a Herbarium material. b Appearance of conidiomata on host surface. c Vertical section of conidioma. d Ostiole. e Pycnidial wall. f Paraphyses. g–i Conidiogenous cells and developing conidia. j–n Conidia. Scale bars: c = 100 μm, d = 50 μm, e, f = 30 μm, g, i–n = 20 μm, h = 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