Fungalpedia – Note 985, Periconia
Periconia. Tode.
Citation when using this data: de Silva NI et al. 2022 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank., Fig 1
Classification: Periconiaceae, Pleosporales, Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Tode (1791) introduced Periconia, typified by P. lichenoides. Periconia members are currently known as hyphomycetes and are characterized by having macronematous, unbranched to branched, stiff, light to dark brown conidiophores with a spherical apex, monoblastic or polyblastic, discrete conidiogenous cells and verruculose or echinulate, pale to dark brown, unicellular which are catenate, usually sphaerical to subsphaerical conidia (Thambugala et al. 2017, Phookamsak et al. 2019, Hongsanan et al. 2020a). There are 114 accepted Periconia species in Species Fungorum (2022). In this study, we introduce two new host records of Periconia.
Type species: Periconia lichenoides Tode, Fung. mecklenb. sel. (Lüneburg) 2: 2 (1791).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Periconia.
Figure 1 – Periconia byssoides (MFLU 21-0241) a The specimen. b, c Appearance of colonies on substrate. d Conidiophore with conidia. e Part of conidiophore with conidia. f Conidiogenesis cells and conidia. g–j Conidia. Scale bars: a = 2 mm, b, c = 0.2 mm, d = 50 μm, e = 20 μm, f = 10 μm, g– j = 5 μm.
References
Tode HJ. 1791 – Fungi Mecklenburgenses selecti. Fasc. II, Generum novorum appendicem, Lüneburg.
Entry by
Nimali Indeewari de Silva, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Research Center of Microbial Diversity and Sustainable Utilization, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.
Published online 18 November 2022