Fungalpedia – Note 831, Tortulomyces
Tortulomyces. Lar.N. Vassiljeva, S.L. Stephenson, Chernyshev & K.D. Hyde.
Citation when using this data: Huang SK et al. 2021 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
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Classification: Nitschkiaceae, Coronophorales, Hypocreomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Saprobic on wood. Sexual morph: Subiculum composed of brown, branched, septate, sinuous hyphae. Ascomata gregarious, superficial, sitting on a subiculum, brown to black, turbinate, subglobose, tuberculate, the apex collapsing when dry, lacking ostioles. Peridium composed of brown to hyaline cells of textura angularis to textura prismatica. Paraphyses cylindrical, septate. Asci 8-spored, unitunicate, clavate to cylindrical, apex rounded, apical ring inconspicuous, with long pedicel, evanescent. Ascospores bi-seriate to overlapping, pale brown, 1-septate, ellipsoidal, smooth-walled, guttulate. Asexual morph: Undetermined (adapted from Vasilyeva et al. 2013).
Notes – The monotypic genus Tortulomyces was introduced by Vasilyeva et al. (2013) for T. thailandicus growing on dead branches in Thailand. Tortulomyces was placed in Nitschkiaceae, but no molecular data is available for this genus (Vasilyeva et al. 2013).
Type species: Tortulomyces thailandicus Lar.N. Vassiljeva, S.L. Stephenson, Chernyshev & K.D. Hyde, Mycoscience 54(1): 111 (2013).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Tortulomyces.
References
Entry by
Shi-Ke Huang, State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China, The Engineering Research Center of Southwest Bio-Pharmaceutical Resources, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, Guizhou Province, China, 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, The Mushroom Research Centre, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
Published online 14 September 2021