Fungalpedia – Note 658, Strigopodia
Strigopodia Bat.
Citation when using this data: D. S. Marasinghe et al. 2023 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig.1
Classification: Euantennariaceae, Incertae sedis, Incertae sedis, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Epiphytic on branches, twigs or leaves appearing as blackened areas. Superficial mycelium comprising of cylindrical, straight to irregularly curved, septate, pale brown to brown, occasionally anastomosing, finely or coarsely roughened hyphae. Sexual morph: Ascomata superficial, scattered to gregarious, globose to subglobose, brown to dark brown, membranous, ostiolate or without ostiole, surrounded by cylindrical hypha appendages. Peridium composed of thick, dark brown cells of textura angularis, thick-walled. Hamathecium lacking pseudoparaphyses. Asci 2–8-spored, bitunicate, ellipsoidal or fusoid to cylindrical, sometimes obclavate, thin-walled, apedicellate, ocular chamber present. Ascospores irregularly arranged in asci, ellipsoidal, fusoid, pale brown to brown or reddish brown, 2 to 3–7-multi-septate with or without mucronate ends, with or without guttules, rounded at the ends, slightly or not at all constricted at the septa. Asexual morph: Undetermined.
Notes: Strigopodia was established by Batista (1957) with the type species of S. piceae. Barr (1987a) placed Strigopodia in Coccodiniaceae and later Lumbsch and Huhndorf (2010) transferred to Euantennariaceae. Sivanesan (1984) mentioned that Antennatula is the asexual morph of Strigopodia. Chomnunti et al. (2014) restudied an herbarium specimen of S. piceae from the USA (Fig. 1). Strigopodia shares some morphological characters with Euantennariaceae in having globose to subglobose, brown to dark brown, ascomata with appendages, superficial dark, dark, forming a flattened mat, but frequently with erect branches, 8-spored asci, brown ascospores. It differs from Euantennaria by muriform ascospores. However, the placement of this genus in Euantennariaceae needs to confirm with molecular data.
= Chaetosaccardinula Bat., in Batista & Peres, Brotéria, N.S. 31(2): 84 (1962).
Type species: Strigopodia piceae Bat., in Batista et al., Anais Soc. Biol. Pernambuco 15(2): 440 (1957).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Strigopodia.
Figure 1 – Strigopodia spongiosa. a Setose ascomata. b Ascus. c mature ascospores. Scale bars: Not mentioned. Adapted from Barr (1972)
References
Barr ME 1987a – New taxa and combinations in the Louculoascomycetes. Mycotaxon 29:501–505.
Batista AC, Costa AA, Ciferri R 1957 – Orgânogênese e sistemática dos fungos Trichopeltinaceae (Theiss.) emend. Nobis. Atti dell’Istituto Botanico della Università e Laboratorio Crittogamico di Pavia 15(Ser. 5):35–56.
Chomnunti P, Hongsanan S, Aguirre-Hudson B et al 2014 – The sooty moulds. Fungal Divers 66:1–36.
Lumbsch HT, Huhndorf SM 2010 – Outline of Ascomycota 2009. Myconet 14:1–64.
Sivanesan A 1984 – The bitunicate ascomycetes and their anamorphs. J. Cramer, Vaduz, p 701.
Entry by
Diana Sandamali Marasinghe, 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, Mushroom Research Foundation, 128 M.3 Ban Pa Deng T. Pa Pae, A. Mae Taeng, Chiang Mai, 50150, Thailand
Published online 29 August 2023