Fungalpedia – Note 1191, Thermothelomyces
Thermothelomyces. Y. Marín, Stchigel, Guarro & Cano.
Citation when using this data: Hyde KD et al. 2020 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank
Classification: Chaetomiaceae, Sordariales, Sordariomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Notes – Thermothelomyces was introduced by Marin-Felix et al. (2015) and includes four species. Phylogenetic analyses of combined ITS, tef1 and rpb2 datasets showed that Thermothelomyces belongs in Chaetomiaceae (Marin-Felix et al. 2015). The genus is characterised by a thermophilic habit, ascomata that are immersed or semi-immersed, globose, cleistothecial, black, glabrous, with a wall of textura epidermoidea. Asci are ellipsoidal, thin-walled, pedicellate, and evanescent and ascospores are ellipsoidal, dark brown to black at maturity, thick- and smooth-walled, with a single germ pore. In the asexual morph, conidiophores are micronematous or semimacronematous and conidia are holoblastic, brown, subglobose or obovoid to ellipsoidal, ornamented or rarely smooth.
Type species: Thermothelomyces thermophilus (Apinis) Y. Marín, Stchigel, Guarro & Cano [as ‘thermophila’], in Marín-Felix, Stchigel, Miller, Guarro & Cano-Lira, Mycologia 107(3): 630 (2015).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Thermothelomyces.
References
Entry by
Kevin David Hyde, Institute of Plant Health, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Haizhu District, Guangzhou 510225, P.R. China, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, 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, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China, School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, World Agroforestry Centre, East and Central Asia, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China
Published online 28 February 2020