Fungalpedia – Note 488, Phellinocrescentia

 

Phellinocrescentia Crous & Decock

Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomata.

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Classification: Monoblastiaceae, Pleosporales, Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi.

A monotypic genus Phellinocrescentia was introduced to accommodate Phellinocrescentia guianensis that grows on basidiocarps of a Phellinus sp. in French Guiana. The genus shows a phoma-like morphology but differs in having solitary or aggregated, uni- to multilocular conidiomata, and ellipsoid to tear-drop-shaped conidia (Crous et al. 2014). Hongsanan et al. (2020) accepted Phellinocrescentia in Monoblastiaceae. This pycnidial genus shares a morphology similar to that of Anisomeridium and showed close phylogenetic association with Funbolia in combined multigene phylogenetic analyses (Hongsanan et al. 2020). 

Type species: Phellinocrescentia guianensis Crous & Decock

Other accepted species: This genus is monotypic.

 

Figure 1 – Phellinocrescentia guianensis. a Conidiogenous cells and conidia. b Conidia. Scale bars: a, b = 10 μm. Redrawn from Crous et al. (2014).

 

References 

Crous PW, Wingfield MJ, Schumacher RK, Summerell BA. et al. 2014 – Fungal Planet description sheets: 281–319. Persoonia-Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi 33(1), 212–289.

Hongsanan S, Hyde KD, Phookamsak R, Wanasinghe DN et al. 2020 – Refined families of Dothideomycetes: Orders and families incertae sedis in Dothideomycetes. Fungal Diversity 105, 17–318.

 

Entry by 

Thiyagaraja V, CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Biodiversity and Biogeography of East Asia (KLPB), Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, P.R. China.

(Edited by Saowaluck Tibpromma, Samaneh Chaharmiri-Dokhaharani, & Achala R. Rathnayaka)

 

Published online 3 December 2024

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