Fungalpedia – Note 2151, Trematosphaeria

 

Trematosphaeria. Fuckel.

Citation when using this data: Hongsanan S et al. 2020 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

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

 

Notes – Trematosphaeria pertusa, is characterized by semi-immersed to erumpent ascomata, cellular pseudoparaphyses, cylindric-clavate asci, and fusiform, 1-septate reddish brown to dark brown ascospores (Clements & Shear 1931, Boise 1985a, b, Zhang et al. 2008a). No asexual morph connection is known in Trematosphaeria (Boise 1985a, Phookamsak et al. 2014c). Phoma or Aposphaeria have been reported as an asexual morph of the genus from cultural studies of T. heterospora. However, T. heterospora is now placed in Lophiostoma (Barr 1992b). A zalerion-like asexual morph was reported for Hadrospora with conidia being produced on PDA after 4 months (Tanaka & Harada 2003a). Jones et al. (2009b), however, treated Zalerion maritima, as the asexual morph of Lulwoana (Lulworthiales). However, Tanaka et al. (2015) reported a spermatial morph with subglobose, hyaline spermatia in a culture obtained from Trematosphaeria pertusa.

 

Type species: Trematosphaeria pertusa Fuckel, Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 23-24: 161 (1870).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Trematosphaeria.

 

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Figure 1 – Trematosphaeria confusa (MFLU 18-0532). a, b Ascomata on decaying wood. c Section of ascoma. d Pseudoparaphyses. e–g Asci. h–j Ascospores. k Germinating ascospore. Scale bars: a = 500 μm, b, c = 200 μm, f = 100 μm, e, g = 50 μm, h–k = 20.

 

References

Barr ME. 1992b – Notes on the Lophiostomataceae (Pleosporales). Mycotaxon 45, 191–221.

Boise JR. 1985a – An amended description of Trematosphaeria. Mycologia 77:230–237

Boise JR. 1985b – New combinations in the Pleomassariaceae and the Massarinaceae. Mycotaxon 22, 477–482.

Clements FE, Shear CL. 1931 – Genera of fungi, edn 2. i–vii, 58 plates. H.W. Wilson Company, USA, New York, pp 496.

Jones EBG, Sakayaroj J, Suetrong S, Somrithipol S, Pang KL. 2009b – Classification of marine ascomycota, anamorphic taxa and basidiomycota. Fungal Diversity 35, 1–187.

Phookamsak R, Liu JK, McKenzie EH, Manamgoda DS et al. 2014c – Revision of Phaeosphaeriaceae. Fungal Diversity 68, 159–238.

Tanaka E, Harada Y. 2003a – Hadrospora fallax (Pleosporales) found in Japan. Mycoscience 44, 245–248.

Tanaka K, Hirayama K, Yonezawa H, Sato G et al. 2015 – Revision of the Massarineae (Pleosporales, Dothideomycetes). Studies in Mycology 82, 75–136.

Zhang Y, Fournier J, Pointing SB, Hyde KD. 2008a – Are Melanomma pulvis–pyrius and Trematosphaeria pertusa congeneric? Fungal Diversity 33, 47–60.

 

Entry by

Sinang Hongsanan, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for Plant Epigenetics, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Microbial Genetic Engineering, College of Life Science and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, People’s Republic of China, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50002, Thailand

 

Published online 23 March 2026 

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