Fungalpedia – Note 978, Neohendersoniaceae

 

Neohendersoniaceae. A. Giraldo & Crous.

Citation when using this data: de Silva NI et al. 2022 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank

Classification: Pleosporales, Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Giraldo et al. (2017) introduced Neohendersoniaceae to accommodate a monotypic genus Neohendersonia typified by N. kickxii. Species of this family are endophytes or saprobic on plants, and human pathogens (Tanaka et al. 2017, Hongsanan et al. 2020a). The family is characterized by having immersed, globose to depressed globose, ostiolate ascomata, bitunicate asci, 2-seriate, broadly fusiform, 1- or multi-septate, hyaline ascospore (Hongsanan et al. 2020a). The asexual morph is characterized by having, immersed, globose to collabent conidiomata, discrete, determinate or indeterminate conidiogenous cells and obovoid, cylindrical, clavate or fusiform, distoseptate or euseptate conidia (Giraldo et al. 2017). 

Amarenographium solium grouped within Neohendersoniaceae in our phylogeny and also in previous studies (Tanaka et al. 2017, Devadatha et al. 2020). However, species of Amarenographium is polyphyletic, and therefore, the family placement of Amarenographium sensu stricto remains unresolved (Tanaka et al. 2017). Neohendersoniaceae comprises five genera, Brevicollum, Crassiparies, Medicopsis, Neohendersonia and Neomedicopsis (Tanaka et al. 2017, Devadatha et al. 2020, Hongsanan et al. 2020a). 

Type species: Neohendersonia Petr., Annls mycol. 19(3-4): 190 (1921).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Neohendersoniaceae.

 

References

Devadatha B, Prakash PY, Jones EG, Sarma VV. 2020 – Do mangrove habitats serve as a reservoir for Medicopsis romeroi, a clinically important fungus. Mycological Progress 19, 1267–1280.

Giraldo A, Crous PW, Schumacher RK et al. 2017 – The genera of Fungi-G3: Aleurocystis, Blastacervulus, Clypeophysalospora, Licrostroma, Neohendersonia and Spumatoria. Mycological Progress 16, 325–348.

Hongsanan S, Hyde KD, Phookamsak R, Wanasinghe DN et al. 2020a – Refined families of Dothideomycetes: Dothideomycetidae and Pleosporomycetidae. Mycosphere 11, 1553–2107.

Tanaka K, Hashimoto A, Matsumura M, Sato T. 2017 – Brevicollum, a new genus in Neohendersoniaceae, Pleosporales. Mycologia 109, 608–619.

 

Entry by

Nimali Indeewari de Silva, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Research Center of Microbial Diversity and Sustainable Utilization, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.

 

Published online 18 November 2022

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