Fungalpedia – Note 1035, Paracladophialophoraceae
Paracladophialophoraceae Crous
Citation when using this data: Tian Q et al. 2021 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank.
Classification: Chaetothyriales, Chaetothyriomycetidae, Eurotiomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Pathogenic on leaves in terrestrial habitats. Mycelium comprising branched, pale brown, septate, smooth-walled hyphae. Sexual morph: Undetermined. Asexual morph: hyphomycetous. Conidiophores reduced to conidiogenous cells or macronematous, solitary, erect, grey-brown, straight or curved, septate, apical apparatus tuft-like due to extremely long conidial chains. Conidiogenous cells terminal and lateral, mono- and polyblastic, proliferating sympodially, subcylindrical, pale brown, smooth-walled. Conidia ellipsoid to fusoid-ellipsoid, subcylindrical, aseptate, pale brown, smooth-walled, guttulate, in long branched chains, ramoconidia subcylindrical, septate (Crous et al. 2016).
Notes: Paracladophialophoraceae Crous was established to accommodate Paracladophialophora Crous with two species isolated from living leaves (Crous et al. 2016, 2018). Based on phylogenetic analyses, Paracladophialophoraceae formed a distinct clade sister to Cyphellophoraceae in Chaetothyriales, while species in Cyphellophoraceae are recognized by solitary conidia arising from phialides and aggregating in a mucoid droplet.
Type genus: Paracladophialophora Crous, in Crous et al., Persoonia 37: 299 (2016).
References
Entry by
Qing Tian, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand
Published online 16 December 2021