Fungalpedia – Note 2341, Ohleria
Ohleria Fuckel
Citation when using this data: Hongsanan S et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
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Classification: Ohleriaceae, Pleosporales, Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Fuckel (1870) described an aposphaeria- or phoma-like asexual morph of O. rugulosa by association on the natural host. Samuels (1980) synonymized four Ohleria species under O. modesta, transferred some species to Passeriniella, Sporormia or Preussia based on ascospore features, and accepted two additional species O. rugulosa and O. brasiliensis in the genus based on morphology of available type materials. Samuels (1980) described a hyphomycetous asexual morph in Monodictys for O. brasiliensis Starbäck. Jaklitsch & Voglmayr (2016) later suggested that O. brasiliensis may not be congeneric with Ohleria, and they also interpreted the Monodictys morph as a synanamorph as, for example, described by Grondona et al. (1997).
There are only two strains of the type species, O. modesta available in GenBank. The lectotype of O. modesta was recently designated by Jaklitsch & Voglmayr (2016). Ten epithets are listed in Species Fungorum (2020), while one of them was transferred to Preussia.
Type species: Ohleria modesta Fuckel.
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Ohleria.
Figure 1 – Ohleria modesta (redrawn from Jaklitsch & Voglmayr 2016, a–n = Ohleria modesta; o–q = Ohleria rugulosa). a, b Ascomata on host surfaces. c Peridium in section. d–e, f Asci. g Trabeculate pseudoparaphyses. h Pycnidium with conidial drop. i–k Ascospores. l Squash mount of pycnidial peridium. m Phialides. n Conidia. o Ascomata on host surface. p, q Ascospores. Scale bars: v = 300 μm, h = 100 μm, e–g, m = 10 μm, i–k, p, q = 5 μm, s = 3 μm.
References
Fuckel L. 1870 – Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Rheinischen Pilze. Jahrb Nassau Verh Naturk 23–24, 1–459.
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