Fungalpedia – Note 3224, Paracremonium

 

Paracremonium. L. Lombard & Crous.

Citation when using this data: Bao DF et al. 2023– Fungalpedia.

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Classification: Nectriaceae, Hypocreales, Hypocreomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Paracremonium is an acremonium-like genus, was established by Lombard et al. (2015) with P. inflatum as the type species. Eight species were further introduced in the genus (Lynch et al.2016; Crous et al. 2017, 2021; Zhang et al. 2017, 2021; Al-Bedak et al. 2019; Ming et al. 2021). Paracremonium is only known by the aseual morphs and characterized by hyaline, septate, branched hyphae which sometimes forming sterile coils from which conidiophores arise (Lombard et al. 2015). Species of Paracremonium are widely distributed and have been reported from Canada, California, China, India, Netherlands and Egypt (Lynch et al. 2016; Crous et al. 2017, 2021; Al-Bedak et al. 2019; Zhang et al. 2021; Ming et al. 2021). In this study, a new geographic record Paracremonium binnewijzendii is described.

Type species: Paracremonium inflatum L. Lombard & Crous, in Lombard, van der Merwe, Groenewald & Crous, Stud. Mycol. 80: 233 (2015)

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Paracremonium.

 

References

Al-Bedak OA, Ismail MA, Mohamed RA 2019 – Paracremonium moubasheri, a new species from an alkaline sediment of Lake Hamra in Wadi-El-Natron, Egypt with a key to the accepted species. Stud Mycol 4(1):216–222.

Crous PW, Wingfield MJ, Burgess TI, Carnegie AJ. et al. 2017 – Fungal planet description sheets: 625–715. Persoonia 39:270–467.

Crous PW, Hernandez-Restrepo M, Schumacher RK, Cowan DA. et al. 2021 – New and interesting fungi. 4. Fungal Syst Evol 7:255–343.

Lombard L, Van der Merwe NA, Groenewald JZ, Crous PW. 2015 – Generic concepts in Nectriaceae. Stud Mycol 80:189–245.

Lynch SC, Twizeyimana M, Mayorquin JS, Wang DH. et al. 2016 – Identification, pathogenicity and abundance of Paracremonium pembeum sp. nov. and Graphium euwallaceae sp. nov. two newly discovered mycangial associates of the polyphagous shot hole borer (Euwallacea sp.) in California. Mycologia 108(2):313–329.

Ming DQ, Luo LY, He XX, Wang MS et al. 2021 – Paracremonium lepidopterorum, a new insect-associated fungus. Phytotaxa 524(2):85–91.

Zhang ZF, Liu F, Zhou X, Liu XZ, Liu SJ, Cai L. 2017 – Culturable mycobiota from Karst caves in China, with descriptions of 20 new species. Persoonia 39(1):1–31.

Zhang ZF, Zhou SY, Eurwilaichitr L, Ingsriswang S, Raza M, Chen Q, Zhao P, Liu F, Cai L 2021 – Culturable mycobiota from Karst caves in China II, with descriptions of 33 new species. Fungal Divers 106(1):29–136.

 

Entry by

Bao Dan‑Feng, College of Agriculture and Biological Science, Dali University, Dali 671003, Yunnan, P.R. 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 50200, Thailand.

 

Published online 28 September 2026

 

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