Fungalpedia – Note 2535, Phaeosphaeriopsis
Phaeosphaeriopsis. M.P.S. Câmara, M.E. Palm & A.W. Ramaley.
Citation when using this data: Boonmee S et al. 2021 – Fungalpedia.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1
Classification: Phaeosphaeriaceae, Pleosporales, Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Notes: Phaeosphaeriopsis is a widely distributed group of phaeosphaeriacous fungi where species are defined primarily based on immersed, subepidermal, globose to subglobose to pyriform ascomata, cylindric asci and vertically septate, punctate or verrucose ascospores with coniothyrium-like or phaeostagonospora-like asexual morphs (Câmara et al. 2003; Thambugala et al. 2014b). Currently, 17 species are accepted in this genus in Species Fungorum (2021).
However, Thambugala et al. (2014b) synonymized Phaeosphaeriopsis musae under Phaeosphaeria musae and the accepted number of species in Phaeosphaeriopsis should therefore be 16 species. All Phaeosphaeriopsis species have available DNA sequence data for molecular comparisons, and the genus is monophyletic. The sexual morph of the majority of Phaeosphaeriopsis species is known and currently, P. agapanthi and P. aloes are known only from their coelomycetous asexual morph. Herein we report the sexual morph of Phaeosphaeriopsis aloes from dead leaves of Yucca elephantipes in Yunnan, China.
Type species: Phaeosphaeriopsis glaucopunctata (Grev.) M.P.S. Câmara, M.E. Palm & A.W. Ramaley [as ‘glauco-punctata‘], in Câmara, Ramaley, Castlebury & Palm, Mycol. Res. 107(5): 519 (2003).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Phaeosphaeriopsis.
Figure 1 – Phaeosphaeriopsis aloes (KUN-HKAS 115783, new host and new geographical record). a–d Ascomata observed on host substrate. e Vertical section through an ascoma. f Close of an ostiole. g Cells of peridium. h Pseudoparaphyses. j–l Asci. i, m–p Ascospores. Scale bars: d, e = 50 μm, g, i–p = 20 μm, h = 10 μm.
References
Species Fungorum 2021 – http://www.speciesfungorum.org/ Spegazzini C 1917 – Revisión de las Laboulbeniales argentinas. An Mus Nac Hist Nat Buenos Aires 29:445–688.
Entry by
Saranyaphat Boonmee, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand, School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand
Published online 6 June 2026