Fungalpedia – Note 2260, Neomassariosphaeria

 

Neomassariosphaeria Y. Zhang ter, J. Fourn. & K.D. Hyde

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

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

Zhang et al. (2009c) presented Neomassariosphaeria (based on Massariosphaeria typhicola) as a new genus in Amniculicolaceae. This genus is characterized by immersed to erumpent, subglobose to lenticular ascomata with a thin peridium, trabeculate pseudoparaphyses, clavate to broadly clavate, short pedicellate asci, fusiform, hyaline to reddish brown, multi-septate ascospores with a gelatinous sheath. Ascomata or hyphae usually stain the woody substrate or cultural medium purple (Zhang et al. 2009c). Ariyawansa et al. (2015a) transferred Neomassariosphaeria to Lindgomycetaceae. However, Wijayawardene et al. (2018) and Jayasiri et al. (2019) accounted this as a member in Amniculicolaceae. Dong et al. (2020) also confirmed that Neomassariosphaeria needs to remain in Amniculicolaceae. Further research of additional morphological and molecular data is required in this genus.

Type species: Neomassariosphaeria typhicola Y. Zhang ter, J. Fourn. & K.D. Hyde, Stud. Mycol. 64: 96 (2009).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Neomassariosphaeria.

 

References

Ariyawansa HA, Hyde KD, Jayasiri SC, Buyck B et al. 2015a – Fungal diversity notes 111–252—taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to fungal taxa. Fungal Diversity 75, 27–274.

Dong W, Wang B, Hyde KD, McKenzie EHC et al. 2020 – Freshwater Dothideomycetes. Fungal Diversity (in prep.)

Jayasiri SC, Hyde KD, Jones EBG, McKenzie EHC et al. 2019 – Diversity, morphology and molecular phylogeny of Dothideomycetes on decaying wild seed pods and fruits. Mycosphere 10, 1–186.

Wijayawardene NN, Hyde KD, Lumbsch HT, Liu JK et al. 2018 – Outline of Ascomycota: 2017. Fungal Diversity 88, 167–263.

Zhang Y, Schoch CL, Fournier J, Crous PW et al. 2009c – Multi-locus phylogeny of the Pleosporales: a taxonomic, ecological and evolutionary re-evaluation. Studies in Mycology 64, 85–102.

 

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 3 April 2026

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