Vaginatispora

Fungalpedia – Note 915, Vaginatispora

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

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

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

Vaginatispora was introduced by Hyde (1995), to accommodate V. aquatica as the type species. Vaginatispora aquatica has longer ostiolar necks and ascospores bearing an entire sheath than Massarina. However, in the phylogenetic analysis of ITS sequences by Liew et al. (2002), this genus was associated with Lophiostoma. Zhang et al. (2014) identified it as synonymous with Lophiostoma based on the relatedness of the genus to Lophiostoma. This conclusion was rejected by Thambugala et al. (2015), and explicitly retained Vaginatispora based on the results of a multigene analysis (LSU, tef1-α, SSU & ITS). Subsequently, this was also confirmed by Wanasinghe et al. (2016) with phylogenetic support. This genus includes eight species (Hyde et al. 1992, Hyde 1995, Liew et al. 2002, Wanasinghe et al. 2016, Devadatha et al. 2017, Hashimoto et al. 2018, Zhang et al. 2019; Hongsana et al 2020b; Wijewardene et al. 2021).

Type species: Vaginatispora aquatica K.D. Hyde, Nova Hedwigia 61(1-2): 235 (1995).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Vaginatispora.

Figure 1 – Vaginatispora amygdali (ZHKU 21-0008, new host record). a, b Appearance of ascomata on a dead branch. c Longitudinal section of an ascoma. d Peridium. e Pseudoparaphyses. f Ascus apex. g–k Asci. l–s Ascospores. t Germinating ascospore. u, v Culture, characters on PDA (u: Above view; v: Reverse view). Scale bar: c = 200 μm, d = 20 μm, e, f = 5 μm, g–t = 20 μm.

References

Devadatha B, Sarma V, Wanasinghe D, Hyde KD et al. 2017– Introducing the new Indian mangrove species, Vaginatispora microarmatispora (Lophiostomataceae) based on morphology and multigene phylogenetic analysis. Phytotaxa 329, 139–149.

Hashimoto A, Hirayama K, Takahashi H, Matsumura M et al. 2018 – Resolving the Lophiostoma bipolare complex: Generic delimitations within Lophiostomataceae. Studies in Mycology 90, 161–189.

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

Hyde KD. 1992 – Intertidal mangrove fungi from the west coast of Mexico, including one new genus and two new species. Mycological Research 96, 25–30.

Hyde KD. 1995 – Tropical Australasian fungi. IX. Vaginatispora aquatica gen. et sp. nov. Nowa Hedwia 61, 233–241.

Liew ECY, Aptroot A, Hyde KD. 2002 – An evaluation of the monophyly of Massarina based on ribosomal DNA sequences. Mycologia 94, 803–813.

Thambugala KM, Hyde KD, Tanaka K, Tian Q et al. 2015 – Towards a natural classification and backbone tree for Lophiostomataceae, Floricolaceae, and Amorosiaceae fam. nov. Fungal Diversity 74, 199–266.

Wanasinghe DN, Jones EBG, Camporesi E, Dissanayake AJ et al. 2016 – Taxonomy and phylogeny of Laburnicola gen. nov. and Paramassariosphaeria gen. nov. (Didymosphaeriaceae, Massarineae, Pleosporales). Fungal Biology 120, 1354–1373.

Zhang H, Hyde KD, Zhao YC, Mackenzie EHC et al. 2014 – Freshwater ascomycetes: Lophiostoma vaginatispora comb. nov. (Dothideomycetes, Pleosporales, Lophiostomataceae) based on morphological and molecular data. Phytotaxa 176, 184–191.

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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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