Fungalpedia – Note 2337, Neomassarina
Neomassarina Phookamsak, Jayasiri & K.D. Hyde
Citation when using this data: Hongsanan S et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
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Classification: Neomassarinaceae, Pleosporales, Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Species in Neomassarina were collected from dead leaves or stems from terrestrial habitat in Thailand. Neomassarina is phylogenetically close to Angustimassarina (Amorosiaceae). They are similar in having cylindrical to cylindric-clavate asci with an ocular chamber and hyaline, 1927 mostly uniseptate ascospores constricted at the septum with a mucilaginous sheath (Thambugala et al. 2015b, Hyde et al. 2016, 2018, Tibpromma et al. 2017, Mapook et al. 2020). However, appendages of ascospores are observed only in Neomassarina. Angustimassarina might be fungicolous as it appeared to grow inside other ascomata (Thambugala et al. 2015b, Tibpromma et al. 2017).
Type species: Neomassarina thailandica Phookamsak, Jayasiri & K.D. Hyde.
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Neomassarina.
Figure 1 – Neomassarina thailandica (MFLU 11-0144, holotype). a Ascostromata on the host surface. b Section through the ascostroma. c Peridium. d, e Pseudoparaphyses. f–h Asci. i–m Ascospores. Scale bars b = 100 µm, c = 20 µm, d–h = 10 µm, i–m = 5 µm.
References
Hyde KD, Chaiwan N, Norphanphoun C et al. 2018 – Mycosphere notes 169–224. Mycosphere 9, 71–430.
Entry by
Sinang Hongsanan, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for Plant Epigenetics, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Microbial Genetic Engineering, College of Life Science and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, People’s Republic of China, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50002, Thailand
Published online 17 April 2026