Fungalpedia – Note 3201, Monotosporella

 

Monotosporella. S. Hughes.

Citation when using this data: Jayawardena RS et al. 2023– Fungalpedia.

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Classification: Incertae sedis, Sordariales, Sordariomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Monotosporella was described by Hughes (1958) with the type species of Monotosporella setosa. Monotosporella was treated as a synonym of Brachysporiella by Ellis (1959). Hernández-Restrepo et al. (2017) considered Brachysporiella and Monotosporella distinct with the support of multi-locus phylogenetic analysis and placed Monotosporella in Pleurotheciales. Monotosporella is characterised by unbranched, brown conidiophores, monoblastic, percurrent, brown conidiogenous cells and septate, brown conidia (Seifert et al. 2011).

Type species: Monotosporella setosa (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) S. Hughes, Canad. J. Bot. 36: 787 (1958)

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Monotosporella.

 

References

Hernandez-Restrepo M, Gene J, Castaneda-Ruiz RF, Mena-Portales J et al 2017 – Phylogeny of saprobic microfungi from Southern Europe. Stud Mycol 86:53–97.

 

Entry by

Jayawardena Ruvishika Shehali, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand

 

Published online 18 September 2026

 

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