Fungalpedia – Note 923, Torulaceae

 

Torulaceae. Clem.

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

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

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

Torulaceae was introduced by Sturm (1829) and is typified by Torula. Torulaceae members have erect, micro- or macronematous, straight or flexuous, subcylindrical conidiophores and doliiform to ellipsoid or clavate, brown, smooth to verruculose conidiogenous cells. Conidia are subcylindrical, phragmosporous, acrogenous, brown, dry, and smooth to verrucose, characteristically produced in branched chains (Hyde et al. 2016, Li et al. 2017, Mapook et al. 2020, Tennakoon et al. 2021). Six genera are accepted in Torulaceae, namely Dendryphion, Neotorula, Rostriconidium, Rutola, Sporidesmioides and Torula (Hongsanan et al. 2020b).

Type genus: Torula Pers., Ann. Bot. (Usteri) 15: 25 (1795).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Torulaceae.

 

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Figure 1 – Comoclathris lonicerae (MFLU 18-1236, new host record). a Ascomata on a dead hanging branch of Colutea arborescens. b Longitudinal section of ascoma. c Peridium. d Pseudoparaphyses. e–g Asci and arrangement of ascospores. h–k Ascospores. Scale bars:
a–c = 200 μm, e–g = 50 μm, d, h–k = 20 μm.

 

References

Hongsanan S, Hyde KD, Phookamsak R, Wanasinghe DN et al. 2020b – Refined families of Dothideomycetes: Dothideomycetidae and Pleosporomycetidae. Mycosphere 11, 1553–2107.

Hyde KD, Hongsanan S, Jeewon R, Bhat DJ et al. 2016 – Fungal diversity notes 367–490: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to fungal taxa. Fungal Diversity 80, 1–270.

Li JF, Phookamsak R, Jeewon R, Bhat DJ et al. 2017 – Molecular taxonomy and morphological characterization reveal new species and new host records of Torula species (Torulaceae, Pleosporales). Mycological Progress 16, 447–461.

Mapook A, Hyde KD, McKenzie EH, Jones EBG et al. 2020 – Taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to fungi associated with the invasive weed Chromolaena odorata (Siam weed). Fungal Diversity 101, 1–175.

Sturm J. Deutschlands Flora. 1829 – Abt. III. Die Pilze Deutschlands 2, 1–136.

Tennakoon DS, Kuo CH, Maharachchikumbura SS, Thambugala KM et al. 2021 – Taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to Celtis formosana, Ficus ampelas, F. septica, Macaranga tanarius and Morus australis leaf litter inhabiting microfungi. Fungal Diversity 108, 1–215.

 

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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