Fungalpedia – Note 2331, Massarina
Massarina. Sacc.
Citation when using this data: Hongsanan S et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1
Classification: Massarinaceae, Pleosporales, Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Notes – Massariana is the generic type of Massarinaceae. The members were assigned to Massariana based on morphological characters (Bose 1961, Barr 1992b, Hyde 1995, Tanaka & Harada 2003d), however only three species have been confirmed by molecular information (Tibpromma et al. 2018). Massarina is characterized by its immersed, hemisphaerical with flattened base or depressed globose ascomata, and broadly fusiform ascospores with rounded ends, hyaline, and multi-septate (Hyde 1995, Tanaka et al. 2015). Asexual morph characters of Massariana has been reported as ceratophoma-like, with aseptate, hyaline conidia or pycnidial conidiomata, enteroblastic conidiogenous cells, and oblong to globose-ovoid, hyaline, one-celled conidia (Tibpromma et al. 2018).
Type species: Massarina eburnea (Tul. & C. Tul.) Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 2: 153 (1883).
≡ Massaria eburnea Tul. & C. Tul., Select. fung. carpol. (Paris) 2: 239 (1863).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Massarina.
Figure 1 – Morphology of Massarinaceae. a–h Massarina eburnea (IFRD 2006, epitype). a Appearance of Massarina eburnea ascoma located on host substrate. b Ostiole canal. c Peridium. d, e Asci and pseudoparaphyses. f–h Ascospores (g ascospores stained in Cotton blue). i–m Stagonospora spp. i, j Close up of Stagonospora imperaticola (MFLU 16–2788, holotype) conidiomata located on host surface. k Conidiogenous cell with developing conidia. l Conidia of Stagonospora imperaticola. m Conidia of Stagonospora forlicesenensis (MFLU 16–1337, holotype). n, o Helminthosporium submersum (MFLU 17-1429, holotype). n Conidiophores and conidia. o Mature conidia. Scale bars: a, l, n = 200 μm, b, j = 100 μm, c–e = 50 μm, f–h, l–m, o = 20 μm, k = 10 μm.
References
Barr ME. 1992b – Notes on the Lophiostomataceae (Pleosporales). Mycotaxon 45, 191–221.
Tanaka K, Harada Y. 2003d – Pleosporales in Japan (3): The genus Massarina. Mycoscience 44, 173–185.
Entry by
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