Fungalpedia – Note 1030, Uncispora
Uncispora R.C. Sinclair & Morgan-Jones
Citation when using this data: Tian Q et al. 2021 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1
Classification: Incertae sedis, Incertae sedis, Incertae sedis, Incertae sedis, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Saprobic on dead twigs of various plants in terrestrial habitats. Colonies broadly effuse, hairy, pale brown to brown. Mycelium immersed to superficial, composed of branched, hyaline to pale brown, septate, smooth-walled hyphae. Sexual morph: Undetermined. Asexual morph: hyphomycetous. Conidiophores macronematous, synnematous or – fasciculate, simple or branched, erect, cylindrical, brown, septate, straight or flexuous, smooth-walled, thick-walled. Conidiogenous cells integrated, terminal, determinate, monoblastic, cylindrical, brown, smooth-walled. Conidia solitary, acrogenous, obclavate, hooked towards the apex, truncate at the base, subhyaline to pale brown, septate, straight or curved, smooth-walled or verrucose-walled at maturity (Sinclair & Morgan-Jones 1979).
Type species: Uncispora harroldiae R.C. Sinclair & Morgan-Jones [as ‘harroldii’], Mycotaxon 8(1): 142 (1979).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Uncispora.
Figure 1 – Uncispora harroldiae (YMF 1.04038, holotype, redrawn from Sinclair & MorganJones 1979). a Conidiophores and Conidiogenous cells with conidia. b Conidia. Scale bars: a, b = 10 µm.
References
Entry by
Qing Tian, 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 16 December 2021