Fungalpedia – Note 2132, Metacapnodium

 

Metacapnodium. Speg.

Citation when using this data: Hongsanan S et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1

Classification: Metacapnodiaceae, Capnodiales, Dothideomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

 

Notes – All species in this genus produces phialidic Capnophialophora states (Hughes & Seifert 2012), and some species produce Capnocybe and Capnosporium states (Hughes 1966, 1976). These three asexual genera were synonymized under the name Metacapnodium (Hyde et al. 2013, Rossman et al. 2016). Sequence data are needed to clarify the classification of Metacapnodium.

 

Type species: Metacapnodium juniperi (W. Phillips & Plowr.) Speg.

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Metacapnodium.

 

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Figure 1 – Metacapnodium juniperi (K(M)164026, holotype). a Appearance on bark of Juniperus communis. b Ascomata. c Moniliform hyphae. e Ascoma wall. e Section through ascoma. f–h Group of asci. i–k Ascospores. Scale Bars: e, g, i= 100 μm, c, f = 50 μm, d, k = 20 μm, h = 15 μm, j, l, m = 10 μm.

 

References

Hughes SJ, Seifert KA. 2012 – Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on Sooty mould names based on species mixtures: Hormiscium handelii and Torula lechleriana. Mycoscience 53, 17–24.

Hughes SJ. 1966 – New Zealand fungi 7. Capnocybe and Capnophialophora, new form genera of sooty moulds. New Zealand Journal of Botany 4, 333–353.

Hughes SJ. 1976 – Sooty moulds. Mycologia 68, 693–820.

Hyde KD, Jones EBG, Liu J-K, Ariyawansa H et al. 2013 – Families of Dothideomycetes. Fungal Diversity 63, 1–313.

Rossman AY, Allen WC, Braun U, Castlebury LA et al. 2016 – Overlooked competing asexual and sexually typified generic names of Ascomycota with recommendations for their use or protection. IMA Fungus 7, 285–304.

 

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 23 March 2026

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