Fungalpedia – Note 369, Sulzbacheromyces

 

Sulzbacheromyces B.P. Hodk. & Lücking

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

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

Classification: Lepidostromataceae, Lepidostromatales, Agaricomycetidae, Agaricomycetes, Agaricomycotina, Basidiomycota, Fungi.

Sulzbacheromyces is a recently erected genus in the family Lepidostromataceae that belongs to the order Lepidostromales. The type species Sulzbacheromyces caatingae was originally described from the caatinga biome in Brazil (Sulzbacher et al. 2012). Sulzbacheromyces shares similar morphological characteristics with Multiclavula (lichenized fungi), although they belong to distantly related clades within the subclass Agaricomycetidae (Cantharellales) (Hodkinson et al. 2014). Sulzbacheromyces is characterized by an entirely crustrose, undifferentiated thallus lacking cortex and medullary structures, and a chlorococcoid photobiont (Sulzbacher et al. 2015). However, Sulzbacheromyces has an extremely simple thallus and basidiome structure and hence only gives few characters potentially useful for species delimitation. Additional phylogenetic analysis of ITS is needed and shows Sulzbacheromyces species separate, well-supported lineages within Sulzbacheromyces (Coca et al. 2018). Sulzbacheromyces species are often found in clay soil, rotten wood, or mixed substrata on African, American, and Asian continents (Kitaura et al. 2023).

            Type species: Sulzbacheromyces caatingae (Sulzbacher & Lücking) B.P. Hodk. & Lücking

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Sulzbacheromyces

 

 

Figure 1 – Morphology of Sulzbacheromyces sp.. a Basidiomata. b Basidiospores. c Basidia and adjacent hyphae. d Basidioles and adjacent hyphae. Scale bars: a = 10 mm, b, c, d = 10 μm. Redrawn from Sulzbacher et al. (2015).

 

References 

Coca LF, Lücking R, Moncada B. 2018 – Two new, sympatric and semi-cryptic species of Sulzbacheromyces (Lichenized Basidiomycota, Lepidostromatales) from the Chocó Biogeographic Region in Colombia. The Bryologist 121(3), 297–305.

Hodkinson BP, Moncada B, Lücking R. 2014 – Lepidostromatales, a new order of lichenized fungi (Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes) with two new genera, Ertzia and Sulzbacheromyces, and one new species, Lepidostroma winklerianum. Fungal Diversity 64, 165–179.

Kitaura MJ, Scur MC, Torres J, Lorenz AP, et al. 2023 – A new record of Sulzbacheromyces caatingae (Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes) from Mato Grosso do Sul and a worldwide infrageneric identification key. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 95: e20220779.

Sulzbacher MA, Baseia IG, Lücking R, Parnmen S, et al. 2012 – Unexpected discovery of a novel basidiolichen in the protected Caatinga biome of Northeast Brazil. Bryologist 115, 601–609.

Sulzbacher MA, Wartchow F, Ovrebo CL, Sousa JO, et al. 2015 – Sulzbacheromyces caatingae: notes on its systematics, morphology and distribution based on ITS barcoding sequences. The Lichenologist 48(1), 61–70.

 

Entry by

Yang EF, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand; Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, Yunnan 655011, China.

 

(Edited by Saowaluck Tibpromma, Samaneh Chaharmiri-Dokhaharani, & Achala R. Rathnayaka)

 

Published online 25 November 2024

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