Fungalpedia – Note 2104, Sulcatisporaceae

 

Sulcatisporaceae Kaz. Tanaka & K. Hiray.

Citation when using this data: Hongsanan S et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

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Classification: Pleosporales, Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Saprobic on various hosts. Sexual morph: Ascomata grouped or scattered, immersed to erumpent, globose from surface view, subglobose to hemisphaerical in transverse section. Ostiolar neck central, papillate, periphysate. Peridium comprising many layers of compressed cells, inadequately developed at the base. Hamathecium comprising branched, anastomosed, cellular or trabeculate pseudoparaphyses. Asci 8-spored, clavate, with short stalk. Ascospores overlapping, roughly fusiform, hyaline, 1-septate, surrounded completely by a sheath. Asexual morph: Conidiomata pycnidial, globose. Conidiogenous cells cylindrical to doliiform, phialidic or annellidic. Conidia ellipsoid to subglobose, hyaline to dark brown, 1- to multi-septate, sometimes muriform, with or without striation (adapted from Tanaka et al. 2015).

Notes: Sulcatisporaceae currently accommodates the genera Magnicamarosporium, Neobambusicola, Pseudobambusicola and Sulcatispora (Tanaka et al. 2015). Neobambusicola initially belonged to Bambusicolaceae (Crous et al. 2014b), but it was transferred to Sulcatisporaceae since it phylogenetically formed a well-supported clade with Magnicamarosporium and Sulcatispora, sister to Bambusicolaceae (Tanaka et al. 2015). The species belonging to Sulcatisporaceae differ from those of the Bambusicolaceae in having subglobose to obovoid muriform conidia (Magnicamarosporium) or conidia bearing 1 to many septations, with or without striation (Neobambusicola) (Tanaka et al. 2015). Pseudoparaparaphyses of this family was reported as both cellular (e.g. Anthosulcatispora) and trabeculate (e.g. Parasulcatispora and Sulcatispora).

Type genus: Sulcatispora Kaz. Tanaka & K. Hiray.

 

References

Crous PW, Wingfield MJ, Schumacher RK, Summerell BA et al. 2014b – Fungal Planet description sheets: 281–319. Persoonia 33, 212–289.

Tanaka K, Hirayama K, Yonezawa H, Sato G et al. 2015 – Revision of the Massarineae (Pleosporales, Dothideomycetes). Studies in Mycology 82, 75–136.

 

Entry by

Sinang Hongsanan, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for Plant Epigenetics, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Microbial Genetic Engineering, College of Life Science and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, People’s Republic of 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 50002, Thailand 

 

Published online 25 March 2026

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