Fungalpedia – Note 808, Scopinella
Scopinella Lév.
Citation when using this data: Huang SK et al. 2021 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1g–h
Classification: Incertae sedis, Sordariales, Sordariomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Saprobic on wood, leaves and/or isolated from soil, or coprophilous or fungicolous. Sexual morph: Ascomata perithecial, solitary to gregarious, superficial to semi-immersed, sometimes sitting on a dense mass of brown hyphae, globose to subglobose venter, usually with long necks, brown to dark brown, semi-translucent, membranaceous, glabrous or hairy, ostiolate. Peridium membranaceous, composed of brown cells of textura angularis. Paraphyses absent or filiform, septate. Asci 2-, 8- to multi-spored, clavate to cylindrical. Ascospores olivaceous brown to dark brown, ellipsoidal, cuboid-ellipsoidal to Z-shaped, verrucose or smooth-walled, usually with two prominent longitudinal germ slits. Asexual morph: Undetermined (adapted from Hawksworth 1975, van Geel & Aptroot 2006, Pastirčák & Pastirčáková 2007, Sanchez et al. 2012).
Notes – Scopinella was introduced by Léveillé (1847) based on S. barbata having ascomata with long necks, 8-spored asci and cuboid-ellipsoidal ascospores. Saccardo (1891) proposed a second species based on Melanospora pleiospora, which has multi-spored asci and ellipsoidal ascospores. However, Hawksworth (1975) clarified Scopinella and did not include S. pleiospora. Seven Scopinella species with cuboid-ellipsoidal ascospores were subsequently introduced (Hawksworth 1975, Cannon & Hawksworth 1982, van Geel & Aptroot 2006, Pastirčák & Pastirčáková 2007, Sanchez et al. 2012, Marin-Felix et al. 2018, Index Fungorum 2021). Zhang & Blackwell (2002) sequenced S. solani (CBS 770.84) which nests in Stachybotryaceae (Hypocreales) in our phylogenetic study. This genus was placed in Ceratostomataceae because of its ascomata with long necks (Pastirčák & Pastirčáková 2007, Wijayawardene et al. 2020, Hyde et al. 2020e). Lumbsch & Huhndorf (2010) placed this genus in Hypocreales. In this study, we propose to place Scopinella in Ceratostomataceae pending molecular data of type species.
Type species: Scopinella pleiospora (J. Schröt.) Sacc. [as ‘plejospora’], Syll. fung. (Abellini) 9: 953 (1891).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Scopinella.
Figure 1 – Biciliosporina karwarensis: a–b (IMI-IMI324681, holotype); c–e (redrawn from Subramanian & Sekar 1990). a Material. b Collapsed ascomata on the host. c Sectional view of ascoma. d Asci. e Ascospores; Syspastospora parasitica: f (redrawn from Cannon & Hawksworth 1982). f Ascospores; Scopinella barbata: g–h (redrawn from Hawksworth 1975). g Ascus. h Ascospores; Loranitschkia viticola: i (redrawn from Vasilyeva et al. 2010). i Asci and ascospores; Botryola tetrasperma: j (redrawn from Batista et al. 1964). j Asci and ascospores; Setiferotheca nipponica: k–m (redrawn from Matsushima 1995). k Peridium with setae. l Asci. m Ascospores; Janannfeldtia karwarensis: n (redrawn from Subramanian & Sekar 1990). n Asci and ascospores; Vittatispora coorgii: o–q (redrawn from Chaudhary et al. 2006). o Ascoma. p Ascus. q Ascospores; Rhagadostomella gregaria: r–s (redrawn from Etayo 2002). r Ascospores. s Asci; Neochaetosphaerella thaxteriospora: t (redrawn from Vasilyeva et al. 2012). t Ascus and ascospores; Tortulomyces thailandicus: u (redrawn from Vasilyeva et al. 2013). u Ascus and ascospores. Scale bars: b = 500 µm, c, k, o = 200 µm, i = 50 µm, d, j, n, s–u = 20 µm, e, g, l, r = 10 µm, h, m, p–q = 5 µm, f = 2 µm.
References
Batista AC, Bezerra JL, Castrillon AL, da Matta EAF. 1964 – Novos Ascomycetos foliícolas e caulinares. Publicações do Instituto de Micologia da Universidade do Recife 431, 1–22.
Etayo J. 2002 – Aportación al conocimiento de los hongos liquenícolas de Colombia. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 84, 1–154.
Matsushima T. 1995 – Matsushima Mycological Memoires 8. Matsushima Mycological Memoirs 8, 1–44.
Saccardo PA. 1891 – Supplementum Universale, Pars I. Agaricaceae-Laboulbeniaceae. Sylloge Fungorum 9, 1–1141.
Subramanian CV, Sekar G. 1990 – Coronophorales from India-a monograph. Kavaka 18, 19–90.
Entry by
Shi-Ke Huang, State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China, The Engineering Research Center of Southwest Bio-Pharmaceutical Resources, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, Guizhou Province, China, 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, The Mushroom Research Centre, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
Published online 14 September 2021