Fungalpedia – Note 3011, Mollisina

Mollisina. Höhn. ex Weese.

Citation when using this data: Wenping Wu & Yongzhao Diao. 2023– Fungalpedia.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank

Classification: Pezizellaceae, Helotiales, Leotiomycetidae, Leotiomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

= Dendrotrichoscypha Svrček, Ceská Mykol. 31: 9, 1977.

Ecology/substrate/host: Saprobe on decaying plant material.

Geographical distribution: Widely distributed.

Description and illustration: Höhnel (1919).

Notes: A total of 15 legitimate names were listed under the genus Mollisina (MycoBank, accessed on July 7th, 2022), but only one species, M. uncinata, was reported with chalara-like anamorph. Its affinity to Pezizellaceae was confirmed by the phylogenetic analyses (Ekanayaka et al. 2019; Johnson et al. 2019).

Type species: Mollisina rubi (Rehm) Höhn., in Weese, Mitt. bot. Inst. tech. Hochsch. Wien 3(2): 67 (1926)

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Mollisina.

References

Ekanayaka AH, Hyde KD, Gentekaki E, McKenzie EHC, Zhao Q, Bulgakov TS, Camporesi L 2019 – Preliminary classification of Leotiomycetes. Mycosphere 10:310–489.

Johnston PR, Quijada L, Smith CA, Baral HO, Hosoya T, Baschien C, Partel K, Zhuang WY, Haelewaters D, Park D, Carls S, Lopez- Giraldez F, Wang Z, Townsend JP 2019 – A multigene phylogeny toward a new phylogenetic classification of Leotiomycetes. IMA Fungus 10:1–22.

von Hohnel F 1919 – Vierte vorlaufige Mitteilung mykologische Ergebnisse (Nr. 305–398). Ber Deutsch Bot Ges 37:107–115.

Entry by

Wenping Wu, R&D Center, Novozymes China, No. 14 Xin Xi Lu, Shangdi Zone, Haidian District, Beijing 100085, People’s Republic of China

Published online 28 August 2026

 

 

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