Fungalpedia – Note 940, Savoryella

 

Savoryella. E.B.G. Jones & R.A. Eaton.

Citation when using this data Manawasinghe IS et al. 2022 – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank., Fig 1

Classification: Savoryellaceae, Savoryellales, Savoryellomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Savoryella, typified by S. lignicola, was introduced by Jones and Eaton (1969), collected from submerged test-blocks in a water-cooling tower. Savoryella comprises 13 species wherein eleven are supported by molecular data (Minoura & Muroi 1978, Koch 1982, Jones and Hyde 1992, Ho et al. 1997, Abdel-Wahab & Jones 2000, Dayarathne et al. 2019, Zhang et al. 2019a). Hyde et al. (2020d) provided a historical and updated taxonomic account of Savoryella and we follow the treatment in this paper. 

Type species: Savoryella lignicola E.B.G. Jones & R.A. Eaton, Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. 52(1): 162 (1969).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Savoryella.

 

 

Figure 1 – Savoryella nypae (MFLU 21–0255, new host record). a Host. b Appearance of colony on natural substrate. c–i Conidia. j Germinated conidium. Colony on MEA from (k) above and (l) below. m–t Development of conidia in culture. Scale bars: a = 1 cm, b–c = 100 μm, d–i, n–t = 10 μm, j, m = 20 μm.

 

References

Abdel-Wahab MA, Jones EBG. 2000 – Three new marine ascomycetes from driftwood in Australian sand dunes. Mycoscience 41, 379–388.

Dayarathne MC, Maharachchikumbura SSN, Jones EBG, Dong W et al. 2019 – Phylogenetic revision of Savoryellaceae and evidence for its ranking as a subclass. Frontiers in Microbiology 10. Doi 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00840

Ho WH, Hyde KD, Hodgkiss IJ. 1997 – Ascomycetes from tropical freshwater habitats: The genus Savoryella, with two new species. Mycological Research 101, 803–809.

Hyde KD, Norphanphoun C, Maharachchikumbura SSN, Bhat DJ et al. 2020d – Refined families of Sordariomycetes. Mycosphere 11, 305–1059.

Jones EBG, Eaton RA. 1969 – Savoryella lignicola gen. et sp.nov. from water-cooling towers. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 52, 161-IN14.

Jones EBG, Hyde KD. 1992 –Taxonomic studies on Savoryella Jones et Eaton (Ascomycotina). Bot Mar 35, 83–92.

Koch J. 1982 – Some lignicolous marine fungi from Sri Lanka. Nordic Journal of Botany 2,163–169.

Minoura K, Muroi T. 1978 – Some freshwater ascomycetes from Japan. Transactions of the Mycological Society of Japan 19,129–134.

Zhang SN, Abdel-Wahab MA, Jones EBG, Hyde KD, Liu JK. 2019a – Additions to the genus Savoryella (Savoryellaceae), with the asexual morphs Savoryella nypae comb. nov. and S. sarushimana sp. nov. Phytotaxa 408, 195–208.

 

Entry by

Ishara Sandeepani Manawasinghe, Innovative Institute for Plant Health, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Guangzhou 510225, PR of China

 

Published online 3 October 2025

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