Fungalpedia – Note 2209, Moleospora
Moleospora Abdel-Wahab, Abdel-Aziz & Nagah
Citation when using this data: Dayarathne MC et al. 2025 – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1
Classification: Incertae sedis, Lulworthiales, Lulworthiomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Saprobic on submerged marine substrates. Sexual morph: Undetermined. Asexual morph: Hyphae septate, branched, yellow-brown, superficial and immersed. Conidiophores present or obsolete, macronematous, septate, hyaline to light-brown, cylindrical to clavate. Conidiogenesis is holoblastic. Conidia helicoid when young and quickly become a mass of cells, dark brown to black, lateral, single, determinate. Conidial cells are generally similar in shape, colour and size that are globose, subglobose, rounded or with truncate base, brown to dark brown.
Notes: This is a monotypic marine asexual genus in the Lulworthiales (Abdel-Wahab et al. 2010) isolated from Phragmites australis collected in Egypt. Morphologically it is similar to Halenospora varia and Cumulospora marina, but differs in conidial dimensions and shape and size of the conidial cells and phylogenetically distant from these genera (Abdel-Wahab et al. 2010).
Type species: Moleospora maritima Abdel-Wahab, Abdel-Aziz & Nagah.
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Moleospora.
Figure 1 – Moleospora maritima. a–f Variously shaped conidia at different stages of maturity. Scale bars: a–f = 10 μm
References
Entry by
Monika Dayarathne, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand.
Published online 26 March 2026