Fungalpedia – Note 2085, Neomassarinaceae

 

Neomassarinaceae Mapook & K.D. Hyde

Citation when using this data: Hongsanan S et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

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

Saprobic on dead leaf or stems of herbaceous plant. Sexual morph: Ascomata immersed or semiimmersed to erumpent, globose to subglobose or obpyriform, light brown to brown, coriaceous, solitary or scattered. Ostiole long neck, carbonaceous, papillate, crest-like, elongated and laterally compressed, with or without hyaline periphyses. Peridium comprising 2–5 layers, pale brown to hyaline cells or dark brown to black cells of textura angularis. Hamathecium comprising cylindrical to filiform, septate, branching, cellular pseudoparaphyses. Asci 8-spored, bitunicate, fissitunicate, cylindrical to cylindric-clavate, with a short pedicel, apically rounded, with an ocular chamber. Ascospores overlapping, 1–2-seriate, fusiform, hyaline to pale brown at maturity, uniseptate, with a narrow sheath or surrounded by hyaline gelatinous sheath; sheath drawn out to form polar appendages from both ends of the ascospores, straight or slightly curved. Asexual morph: Undetermined.

Notes: Neomassarinaceae is a monotypic family and is close to Sporormiaceae and Amorosiaceae based on analysis of a combined ITS, LSU, rpb-2, SSU and tef1 sequence data (Mapook et al. 2020). Neomassarinaceae and Massarinaceae share some characters including hyaline and fusiform ascospores but they are distinct in the phylogenetic analyses (Hyde et al. 2013, 2016).

Type genus: Neomassarina Phookamsak, Jayasiri & K.D. Hyde.

 

References

Hyde KD, Hongsanan S, Jeewon R, Bhat DJ et al. 2016 – Fungal diversity notes 367–490: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to fungal taxa. Fungal Diversity 80, 1–270.

Hyde KD, Jones EBG, Liu J-K, Ariyawansa H et al. 2013 – Families of Dothideomycetes. Fungal Diversity 63, 1–313.

Mapook A, Hyde KD, McKenzie EHC, Gareth Jones EBG et al. 2020 – Taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to fungi associated with the invasive weed Chromolaena odorata (Siam weed). Fungal Diversity 101, 1–175.

 

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 25 March 2026

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