Fungalpedia – Note 928, Thozetella

 

Thozetella. Kuntze.

Citation when using this data Manawasinghe IS et al. 2022 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

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

Classification: Chaetosphaeriaceae, Chaetosphaeriales, Sordariomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Kuntze (1891) introduced Thozetella with T. nivea as the type species. Species of Thozetella are characterized by conidiophores that are grouped into short or long synnemata, terminated by phialidic conidiogenous cells, aseptate conidia, with unbranched setula at each end and sterile microawns (Paulus et al. 2004, Whitton et al. 2012, Hyde et al. 2020c). Twenty-seven morphological species of Thozetella are listed in Index Fungorum (2021), of which 16 have molecular data. We follow Hyde et al. (2020c) for the treatment and updated accounts of Thozetella. In this paper, we document Thozetella nivea from a freshwater habitat in Thailand. Freshwater Thozetella species include T. canadensis, T. coronata, T. cristata, T. cubensis, T. gigantea, T. nivea, T. pinicola, T. queenslandica, T. radicata, T. submersa, T. ypsiloidea (Sivichai et al. 2002, Pinruan et al. 2007, Barbosa et al. 2011, Barbosa et al. 2013, Pinruan et al. 2014, Monteiro et al. 2016, Fiuza et al. 2018, Calabon et al. 2022). 

Type species: Thozetia nivea Berk., J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 18: 388 (1881).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Thozetella.

 

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Figure 1 – Thozetella nivea (MFLU 21–0254). a–c Appearance of conidiomata on natural substrate. d Synnemata. e Conidiogenous cells. f–j Microawns. k–n Conidia. Scale bars: a = 1000 μm, b = 500 μm, c = 200 μm, d = 50 μm, e–n = 10 μm.

 

References

Barbosa FR, Da Silva SS, Fiuza PO, Gusmão LFP. 2011 – Conidial fungi from the semi-arid Caatinga biome of Brazil. New species and records for Thozetella. Mycotaxon 115, 327–334.

Barbosa FR, Raja HA, Shearer CA, Gusmão LFP. 2013 – Some freshwater fungi from the brazilian semi-arid region, including two new species of hyphomycetes. Cryptogam Mycol 34, 243–258.

Calabon MS, Hyde KD, Jones EBG, Luo ZL et al. 2022 – Freshwater fungal numbers. Fungal Diversity (In press).

Fiuza PO, Silva CR, Santos TAB, Raja H et al. 2018 – Roselymyces, a new asexual genus of the Xylariales (Ascomycota) from Brazil. Sydowia 70, 59–65.

Hyde KD, Jeewon R, Chen YJ, Bhunjun CS et al. 2020c – The numbers of fungi: is the descriptive curve flattening? Fungal Diversity 103, 219–271.

Index Fungorum. 2021 – http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/Names.asp (Accessed on October 30, 2021).

Kuntze O. 1891 – Revisio generum plantarum 3, 375–1011.

Monteiro JS, Castañeda-Ruiz RF, Gusmão LFP. 2016 – Thozetella coronata and T. ypsiloidea spp. nov. from the Brazilian Amazon forest. Mycotaxon 131, 605–611.

Paulus B, Gadek P, Hyde K. 2004 – Phylogenetic and morphological assessment of five new species of Thozetella from an Australian rainforest. Mycologia 96, 1074–1087.

Pinruan U, Hyde KD, Lumyong S, McKenzie EHC, Jones EBG. 2007 – Occurrence of fungi on tissues of the peat swamp palm Licuala longicalycata. Fungal Diversity 25, 157–173.

Pinruan U, Pinnoi A, Hyde KD, Jones EBG. 2014 – Tropical peat swamp fungi with special reference to palms. In: Jones EBG, Hyde KD, Pang KL (eds) Freshwater Fungi. De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston, pp. 371–388.

Sivichai S, Jones EBG, Hywel-Jones N. 2002 – Fungal colonisation of wood in a freshwater stream at Tad Ta Phu, Khao Yai National Park, Thailand. Fungal Diversity 10, 113–129.

Whitton SR, McKenzie EHC, Hyde KD. 2012 – Fungi associated with Pandanaceae. Springer Netherlands, London.

 

Entry by

Ishara Sandeepani Manawasinghe, Innovative Institute for Plant Health, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Guangzhou 510225, PR of China

Published online 25 April 2022

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