Fungalpedia – Note 499, Strangosporaceae

 

Strangosporaceae S. Stenroos, Miądl. & Lutzoni

Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Lichenicolous fungi.

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

Classification: Strangosporaceae, Incertae sedis, Incertae sedis, Incertae sedis, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi.

Strangosporaceae, a new family, was introduced by Miadlikowska et al. (2014) to reclassify the Strangospora, based on phylogenetic analysis. Strangosporaceae consists of a single genus, Strangospora, with S. pinicola as the type species, comprising epiphytic, epixylic or bryophylous lichens with crustose and often poorly (Miadlikowska et al. 2014). Strangosporaceae is characterized by convex, biatorine, exciple poorly developed apothecia; slender, essentially unbranched paraphyses; clavate, with gelatinous outer layer, a strongly thickened I+ blue wall and apical dome asci; aseptate, globose ascospores (Körber 1860, Miadlikowska et al. 2014, Morse & Lendemer 2019).

Type genus: Strangospora Körb.

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Strangosporaceae

Figure 1 – Line drawing of Strangospora pinicola. a Ascomata formed on natural substrate. b Ascospores. c Pseudoparaphyses. d Asci. Redrawn from Fungi of Great Britain and Ireland.

 

References

Fungi of Great Britain and Ireland (https://fungi.myspecies.info/all-fungi/strangospora-pinicola).

Morse CA, Lendemer JC. 2019 – A new Biatoridium from eastern North America, with comments on the disposition of species of Biatorella sensu Magnusson. The Bryologist, 122(1), 1–9.

Miadlikowska J, Kauff F, Högnabba F, Oliver JC, Molnár K, Fraker E, et al. 2014 – A multigene phylogenetic synthesis for the class Lecanoromycetes (Ascomycota): 1307 fungi representing 1139 infrageneric taxa, 317 genera and 66 families. Molecular Phylogenetics and evolution 79, 132–168.

Körber, GW. 1860 – Parerga lichenologica. Ergänzungen zum Systema lichenum Germaniae. 2, 97–192.

 

Entry by 

Chen X-M, Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, Yunnan 655011 P.R. China.

 

(Edited by Saowaluck Tibpromma, Samaneh Chaharmiri-Dokhaharani)

 

Published online 9 December 2024

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