Fungalpedia – Note 2845, Paracodinaea
Paracodinaea. W.P. Wu & Y.Z. Diao.
Citation when using this data: Wenping W et al. 2022 – Fungalpedia.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1
Classification: Chaetosphaeriaceae, Chaetosphaeriales, Sordariomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Etymology: Refers to its similarity to Codinaea
Diagnosis: Similar to Codinaea and Codinaeella, but differs in allantoid-shaped conidia.
Colonies effuse, hairy, dark brown. Mycelium partly immersed and partly superficial, composed of brown, branched and septate hyphae. Setae absent. Teleomorph: Unknown. Anamorph: Conidiophores macronematous, solitary or aggregated, simple, erect, straight, or slightly flexuous, cylindrical, dark brown and thick-walled in lower part, becoming paler and thin-walled towards the apex, septate, smooth, terminating with a conidiogenous cell. Conidiogenous cells integrated, terminal, monophialidic, extending sympodially, cylindrical, pale brown to brown, thin-walled; collarettes funnel-shaped. Conidia holoblastic, acrogenous, solitary, formed in droplet surrounding the tips of conidiogenous cells, allantoidal, curved, aseptate, hyaline, smooth, both apex and base bear an unbranched setula.
Ecology/Substrate/Host: Saprobe on dead plant material.
Geographical distribution: China and Japan.
Notes: Phylogenetic analysis indicates that Tainosphaeria is a polyphyletic genus and the monophyletic generic concepts was proposed with 5 lineages that correspond to particular morphologies (Réblová et al. 2021). Our phylogenetic analysis shows that several strains obtained from China and Japan are grouped together with Tainosphaeria and related genera, but forms a distinct linkage, and the new genus Paracodinaea is introduced here. Morphologically it can hardly be distinguished from Codinaeella and Tainosphaeria s. str.
Type species: Paracodinaea japonica W.P. Wu & Y.Z. Diao, Fungal Diversity 116: 192 (2022)
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Paracodinaea.
Figure 1 – Paracodinaea japonica (Wu16901, holotype). a–c Conidiophores and conidiogenous cells with funnel-shaped collarettes. d–k Conidia. Scale bar: 5 μm.
References
Entry by
Wenping Wu, R&D Center, Novozymes China, No. 14 Xin Xi Lu, Shangdi Zone, Haidian District, Beijing 100085, People’s Republic of China
Published online 3 August 2026