Fungalpedia – Note 2313, Paraphaeosphaeria

 

Paraphaeosphaeria. O.E. Erikss.

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

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

 

Notes – Paraphaeosphaeria was introduced Eriksson (1967) to accommodate four species with oblong-cylindric ascospores (P. castagnei, P. michotii, P. obtusispora, and P. rusci). Paraphaeosphaeria species are characterized in having immersed to semi-immersed ascomata, bitunicate asci with a short pedicel and multi-septate, broadly elliptical, yellowish brown ascospores (Wong et al. 2000, Ariyawansa et al. 2014d). Paraphaeosphaeria produces coniothyrium-like asexual morphs characterized by eustromatic or pycnidial conidiomata, phialidic, or annelidic conidiogenous cells and aseptate or 1-septate conidia (Verkley et al. 2014). Recent studies confirmed the placement of Paraphaeosphaeria in Didymosphaeriaceae (Ariyawansa et al. 2014d, Verkley et al. 2014, Wanasinghe et al. 2018c). Paraphaeosphaeria comprises 29 epithets in Species Fungorum (2020).

 

Type species: Paraphaeosphaeria michotii (Westend.) O.E. Erikss., Arch. Botan. 6: 405 (1967).

≡ Sphaeria michotii Westend., Bull. Acad. R. Sci. Belg., Cl. Sci., sér. 2 7(5): 87 (1859).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Paraphaeosphaeria.

 

References

Ariyawansa HA, Tanaka K, Thambugala KM, Phookamsak R et al. 2014d – A molecular phylogenetic reappraisal of the Didymosphaeriaceae (= Montagnulaceae). Fungal Diversity 68, 69–104.

Species Fungorum. 2020 – http://www.speciesfungorum.org/Index.htm

Verkley GJM, Dukik K, Renfurm R, Göker M, Stielow JB. 2014 – Novel genera and species of coniothyrium-like fungi in Montagnulaceae (Ascomycota). Persoonia. 32, 25–51.

Wanasinghe DN, Phukhamsakda C, Hyde KD, Jeewon R et al. 2018c – Fungal diversity notes 709–839: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to fungal taxa with an emphasis on fungi on Rosaceae. Fungal Diversity 89, 1–236.

Wong MK, Goh TK, Hyde KD. 2000 – Paraphaeosphaeria schoenoplecti sp. nov. from senescent culms of Schoenoplectus litoralis in Hong Kong. Fungal Diversity 4, 171–179.

 

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 9 April 2026

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