Fungalpedia – Note 2993, Vanakripa

 

Vanakripa Bhat, Kendrick & Nag Raj.

Citation when using this data: Jing Yang et al. 2023 – Fungalpedia. 

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

Classification: Incertae sedis, Fuscosporellales, Hypocreomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Dikarya, Fungi.

Notes: Bhat and Kendrick (1993) established Vanakripa to accommodate two dematiaceous hyphomycetes with V. gigaspora as the type species. Eleven species are accepted in the genus without known sexual morphs (Index Fungorum 2022). Vanakripa is characterized by sporodochial conidiomata, micronematous or macronematous conidiophores, monoblastic, subcylindrical to vermiform, hyaline conidiophores and 0–1-septate, ellipsoidal, obovoid or pyriform, dark brown conidia. The terminal, subcylindrical to vermiform, hyaline cells were described as conidiogenous cells by Bhat and Kendrick (1993). They are persistently attached to the conidia. Tsui et al. (2003) considered that the “conidiogenous cells” are incapable of proliferating or producing conidia, based on re-examining the type material of V. parva and V. gigaspora. They recognized these cells as the separating cells bearing conidia, referring to similar features in Beltrania, Beltraniopsis and Beltraniella (Pirozynski 1963).

 Molecular DNA data is only available for V. minutiellipsoidea and V. chiangmaiense (Vu et al. 2019; Yang et al. 2020; Phukhamsakda et al. 2022). In our phylogenetic analysis (Jing Yang et al. 2023), they positioned within the Conioscypha clade consistent with the result in Yang et al. (2020) and Phukhamsakda et al. (2022).

Type species: Vanakripa chiangmaiensis X.G. Tian & Karun., Fungal Diverse 114: 351 (2022).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Vanakripa.

Figure 1 – Vanakripa chiangmaiensis (HKAS 124634) a Sporodochial conidiomata on wood. b–k, m Conidia and separating cells. l Germinated conidium. n Culture from above. Scale bars: b–d, l = 30 μm, i–k, m = 20 μm, f–h = 15 μm, e = 10 μm.

 

References

Bhat DJ, Kendrick B. 1993 – Twenty-five new conidial fungi from the Western Ghats and the Andaman Islands (India). Mycotaxon 49:19–90.

Phukhamsakda C, Nilsson RH, Bhunjun CS, Gomes de Farias AR et al. 2022 – The numbers of fungi: contributions from traditional taxonomic studies and challenges of metabarcoding. Fungal Divers 114:327–386.

Pirozynski KA. 1963 – Beltrania and related genera. Mycol Pap 90:1–37.

Tsui CKM, Goh TK, Hyde KD. 2003 – Reflections on the genus Vanakripa, and a description of V. ellipsoidea sp. nov.. Mycologia 95:124–127.

Vu D, Groenewald M, de Vries M, Gehrmann T et al. 2019 – Large-scale generation and analysis of filamentous fungal DNA barcodes boosts coverage for kingdom Fungi and reveals thresholds for fungal species and higher taxon delimitation. Stud Mycol 92:135–154.

Yang H, Dong W, Yu XD, Bhat DJ, Boonmee S, Zhang H. 2020 – Four freshwater dematiaceous hyphomycetes in Sordariomycetes with two new species of Parafuscosporella. Phytotaxa 441:19–34.

Yang J, Liu LL, Jones EBG. et al. 2023 – Freshwater fungi from karst landscapes in China and Thailand. Fungal Diversity 119, 1–212. 

 

Entry by

Jing Yang, School of Life Science and Technology, Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, People’s Republic of China, School of Science, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, Guizhou Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biotechnology, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guiyang 550006, People’s Republic of China.

 

Published online 20 August 2026

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