Fungalpedia – Note 787, Vamsapriyaceae
Vamsapriyaceae. Y.R. Sun, Yong Wang bis & K.D. Hyde.
Citation when using this data: Karimi O et al. 2025 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank.
Classification: Xylariales, Xylariomycetidae, Sordariomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Vamsapriyaceae was established by Sun et al. (2021) to accommodate the genus Vamsapriya (V.), originally introduced by Gawas & Bhat (2005), based on the combined phylogenetic analyses of LSU, rpb2, tub2, and ITS sequence data. Currently, the family comprises six genera: Diabolocovidia, Didymobotryum, Vamsapriya, Paravamsapriya, Podosporium, and Tretophragmia (Saccardo 1886, Gawas & Bhat 2005, Crous et al. 2020, Sun et al. 2021, Samarakoon et al. 2022). Members of Vamsapriyaceae are predominantly saprobes found on woody substrates in tropical and subtropical regions (Saccardo 1886, Gawas & Bhat 2005, Crous et al. 2020, Sun et al. 2021, Samarakoon et al. 2022). The sexual morph is characterized by immersed, subglobose, black, ostiolate ascomata with a thin-walled, brown peridium. Paraphyses are hyaline and septate. Asci are eight-spored, unitunicate, cylindrical, and short-pedicellate with a J+ apical ring. Ascospores are apiosporous, fusiform to broad fusiform, and hyaline. The asexual morph is effuse, black, and velvety on natural substrates. It may or may not form synnemata. If present, synnemata are erect, rigid, dark brown, and composed of compact parallel conidiophores. Conidiophores are mono- or polytretic, terminal, clavate to cylindrical, and brown. Conidiogenous cells are similar in morphology, and conidia are catenate or solitary, acrogenous, pigmented, multiform, and septate. Without synnemata, the asexual morph features monoblastic, subcylindrical to clavate conidiogenous cells, and conidia are catenated, acrogenous, brown, ellipsoid to obovoid, thin-walled, and aseptate (Crous et al. 2020, Sun et al. 2021).
Type genus: Vamsapriya Gawas & Bhat, Mycotaxon 94: 150 (2006) [2005]
References
Gawas P, Bhat DJ. 2005 – Vamsapriya indica gen. et sp. nov., a bambusicolous, synnematous fungus from India. Mycotaxon 94, 149–154.
Saccardo, PA. 1886 – Sylloge hyphomycetum. Sylloge Fungorum. 4, 1–807.
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