Fungalpedia – Note 1943, Prosopidicolaceae
Prosopidicolaceae Senan. & K.D. Hyde
Citation when using this data: Hyde KD et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank.
Classification: Diaporthales, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Pathogenic on species of Fabaceae. Sexual morph: Undetermined. Asexual morph: Coelomycetous. Conidiomata pycnidial, rarely acervular, solitary or aggregated in a eustromatic stroma with one to several ostioles or astromatic, grey to black, erumpent to immersed. Peridium comprising grey-brown cells of textura angularis. Conidiophores reduced to conidiogenous cells or lining the whole inner layer of the wall, subcylindrical, branched, septate, straight to irregularly curved, base pale brown, becoming medium green-brown at apex. Conidiogenous cells mono- to polyphialidic, tightly aggregated, hyaline, smooth, ampulliform, subcylindrical to lageniform, prominent periclinal thickening, at times with percurrent proliferation. Conidia solitary, subhyaline to grey-brown, smooth, guttulate, straight to variously curved, ellipsoid to fusoid-ellipsoid, apex obtuse, base truncate to bluntly round (adapted from Senanayake et al. 2017a).
Notes: Prosopidicolaceae was introduced by Senanayake et al. (2017a) for Prosopidicola species. The sexual morph has not been reported for this family and it is distinct from other families of Diaporthales in having pycnidial, rarely acervular, eustromatic conidiomata with one to several ostioles, mono- to polyphialidic, ampulliform, subcylindrical to lageniform conidiogenous cells with periclinal thickening and subhyaline to brown, ellipsoid to fusoid-ellipsoid conidia.
Type genus: Prosopidicola Crous & C.L. Lennox.
References
Entry by
Kevin David Hyde, Institute of Plant Health, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Haizhu District, Guangzhou 510225, P.R. China, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, Mushroom Research Foundation, 128 M.3 Ban Pa Deng T. Pa Pae, A. Mae Taeng, Chiang Mai 50150, Thailand, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China, School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, World Agroforestry Centre, East and Central Asia, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China
Published online 6 March 2026