Fungalpedia – Note 3015, Neochalara
Neochalara. Crous.
Citation when using this data: Wenping Wu & Yongzhao Diao. 2023– Fungalpedia.
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Classification: Pezizellaceae, Helotiales, Leotiomycetidae, Leotiomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Anamorph: Conidiophores arising from bulbous base, or as extension of hyphae, frequently aggregated, cylindrical, brown, erect, thick-walled, unbranched, septate, with terminal conidiogenous cells. Conidiogenous cells phialidic, brown, smooth-walled, consisting of a venter and a collarette; transition from venter to collarette gradual; venter subcylindrical brown; collarette cylindrical, pale brown. Conidia endogenous, extruded in long and unbranched chains, cylindrical, both ends truncated and with marginal frill, medially 1- septate, hyaline, guttulate, smooth-walled (Adapted from Crous et al. 2021). Teleomorph: Unknown.
Ecology/substrate/host: Saprobes on Spiraea japonica (Rosaceae).
Geographical distribution: Netherland.
Description and illustration: Crous et al. (2021).
Notes: The recently established genus Neochalara is morphologically indistinguishable from Cylindrocephalum and Nagrajchalara, but phylogenetically distinct (Crous et al. 2021, 2022; Nag Raj and Kendrick 1975; McKenzie et al. 2002). In the phylogenetic analyses, the two known species N. lolae and N. spiraeae clustered together with the Chalara s. str. species producing aseptate conidia, but as a distinct lineage.
Type species: Neochalara spiraeae Crous, in Crous et al., Persoonia 47: 217 (2021)
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Neochalara.
References
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Wenping Wu, R&D Center, Novozymes China, No. 14 Xin Xi Lu, Shangdi Zone, Haidian District, Beijing 100085, People’s Republic of China
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