Fungalpedia – Note 2110, Purpurepithecium
Purpurepithecium Jayasiri & K.D. Hyde
Citation when using this data: Hongsanan S et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
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Classification: Gloniaceae, Mytilinidiales, Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
This genus was introduced primarily based on molecular data. Purpurepithecium differs from the type genus Glonium in having scattered to gregarious, navicular, flexuous hysterothecia and a purple pigmented epithecium. Purpurepithecium murisporum is characterized by a Psiloglonium stygium like asexual morph (Lohman 1933a, 1937) and Glonium also shares similar asexual structures.
Type species: Purpurepithecium murisporum Jayasiri & K.D. Hyde, in Jayasiri et al., Cryptog. Mycol. 38(2): 246 (2017).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Purpurepithecium.
Figure 1 – Purpurepithecium murisporum (MFLU 17-0447, paratype). a A pine cone. b, c View of hysteriothecia on host surface. d Peridium e Section through hysteriothecium. f Epithecium with asci. g–j Asci. k–n Ascospores. Scale bars: d = 1 cm, e = 20 µm, b, c = 500 µm, g–j = 30 µm, k–n = 10 µm, d = 20 µm.
References
Lohman ML. 1933a – Hysteriaceae: Life histories of certain species. Annual report of the Michigan Academy of Science 17, 229–288.
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 3 April 2026