Fungalpedia – Note 750, Tubeufiaceae

 

Tubeufiaceae M.E. Barr 

Citation when using this data: Karimi O et al. 2025 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

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Classification: Tubeufiales, Incertae sedis, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi             

Tubeufiaceae was introduced by Barr (1979) based on the type genus Tubeufia (Tu.), along with five other genera: Letendraeopsis, Melioliphila, Podonectria, Rebentischia, and Thaxteriella. To date, the family comprises 54 genera (Hyde et al. 2024). Most species in Tubeufiaceae were reported as saprobes on decaying woody substrates in terrestrial and freshwater habitats (Lu et al. 2018, Lu & Kang 2020, Li et al. 2022, Ma et al. 2023, 2024). The sexual morph of Tubeufiaceae is characterized by superficial, white to yellow, pale brown, or black ascomata, with or without setae, seated on a subiculum, with a pseudoparaphysate hamathecium, bitunicate asci, and hyaline to pale brown, cylindrical ascospores (Boonmee et al. 2014). The asexual morph is hyphomycetous, typically dictyosporous, helicosporous, or phragmosporous-like (Zhao et al. 2007, Boonmee et al. 2014, Lu et al. 2018). In this study, we introduce six new species and report one new record from palm in the peat swamp forest of Narathiwat, Thailand. 

Type genus: Tubeufia Penz. & Sacc., Malpighia 11(11-12): 517 (1898) [1897].

 

References

Barr ME. 1979 – A classification of Loculoascomycetes. Mycologia 71, 935–957.

Boonmee S, Rossman AY, Liu JK, Li WJ et al. 2014 – Tubeufiales, ord. nov., integrating sexual and asexual generic names. Fungal Diversity 68, 239–298.

Hyde KD, Noorabadi MT, Thiyagaraja V, He MQ, et al. 2024 – The 2024 Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa. Mycosphere 15, 5146–6239. 

Li LL, Shen HW, Bao DF, Wanasinghe DN et al. 2022 – The plethora of Tubeufiaceae in lakes of the northwestern Yunnan plateau, China. Frontiers in Microbiology 13, 1056669.

Lu Y, Kang J. 2020 – Research progress on helicosporous hyphomycetes. Journal of Fungal Research 18, 304–314.

Lu YZ, Liu JK, Hyde KD, Jeewon R et al. 2018 – A taxonomic reassessment of Tubeufiales based on multi-locus phylogeny and morphology. Fungal Diversity 92, 131–344.

Ma J, Xiao XJ, Liu NG, Boonmee S et al. 2023 – Morphological and multi-gene phylogenetic analyses reveal Pseudotubeufia gen. nov. and two new species in Tubeufiaceae from China. Journal of Fungi 9, 742.

Zhao GZ, Liu XZ, Wu WP. 2007 – Helicosporous hyphomycetes from China. Fungal Diversity 26, 313–524.

 

Entry by

Omid Karimi, State Key Laboratory of Discovery and Utilization of Functional Components in Traditional Chinese Medicine & School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guizhou Medical University, Guian New District, Guizhou 550004, 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

 

Published online 28 July 2025

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