Fungalpedia – Note 2344, Parapyrenochaeta
Parapyrenochaeta Valenz.-Lopez, Crous, Stchigel, Guarro & Cano.
Citation when using this data: Hongsanan S et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1
Classification: Incertae sedis, Pleosporales, Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Pyrenochaeta protearum resembles phoma-like taxa in producing single phialides covering the inner source of the pycnidia, and having small, aseptate, hyaline conidia, but also resembles pyrenochaeta-like species due to its setose pycnidia (Crous et al. 2011b). Based on multilocus molecular phylogenetic analysis using ITS and LSU nucleotide sequence data, this fungus has been identified as related to Leptosphaeria, Pyrenochaeta and Pyrenochaetopsis, and was included in Pyrenochaeta (Crous et al. 2011b). Valenzuela-Lopez et al. (2018) accommodated the fungal species into Parapyrenochaeta.
Type species: Parapyrenochaeta protearum (Crous) Valenz.-Lopez, Crous, Stchigel, Guarro & Cano., Stud. Mycol. 90:64 (2018).
≡ Pyrenochaeta protearum Crous, Persoonia 27:153 (2011).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Parapyrenochaeta.
Figure 1 – Parapyrenochaeta protearum (redrawn from Valenzuela-Lopez et al. 2018, CBS 131315). a Conidiophores. b Conidia.
References
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