Fungalpedia – Note 3225, Sedecimiella

 

Sedecimiella. K.L. Pang, Alias & E.B.G. Jones.

Citation when using this data: Bao DF et al. 2023– Fungalpedia.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank

Classification: Sedecimiellaceae, Hypocreales, Hypocreomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Sedecimiella was introduced with a single species S. taiwanensis by Pang et al.   (2010). Sedecimiella taiwanensis is a mangrove-based marine fungus collected from Taiwan, China. Sedecimiella taiwanensis is placed in Hypocreales genera incertae sedis  (Pang et al. 2021; Hyde et al. 2020) and was characterized by orange to dark brown, pyriform with globose to subglobose venter, coriaceous, ostiolate ascomata, two layered peridium, 16-spored, unitunicate, cylindrical asci with short pedicellate lacking an apical pore and globose, one-celled, hyaline ascospores. In our phylogenetic analysis,   Sedecimiella taiwanensis clustered  with two Acremonium species (A. minutisporum and A. vitellinum) within Nectriaceae (Bao DF et al. 2023). We therefore place S. taiwanensis in Nectriaceae. However, the relationship between S. taiwanensis and the two species of Acremonium (A. minutisporum and A. vitellinum) needs to be resolved.

Type species:  Sedecimiella taiwanensis K.L. Pang, Alias & E.B.G. Jones, in Pang, Alias, Chiang, Vrijmoed & Jones, Bot. Mar. 53(6): 495 (2010)

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Sedecimiella.

 

References

Bao DF, Hyde K.D., Maharachchikumbura, S.S.N. et al. 2023 – Taxonomy, phylogeny and evolution of freshwater Hypocreomycetidae (Sordariomycetes). Fungal Diversity 121, 1–94.

Hyde KD, Dong Y, Phookamsak R, Jeewon R. et al. 2020 – Fungal diversity notes 1151–1276: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions on genera and species of fungal taxa. Fungal Divers 100:5–277.

Pang KL, Alias SA, Chiang MW, Vrijmoed L, Jones EBG 2010 – Sedecimiella taiwanensis gen. et sp. nov., a marine mangrove fungus in the Hypocreales (Hypocreomycetidae, Ascomycota). Bot Mar 53:493–498.

 

Entry by

Bao Dan‑Feng, College of Agriculture and Biological Science, Dali University, Dali 671003, Yunnan, P.R. 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 50200, Thailand.

 

Published online 28 September 2026

 

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