Fungalpedia – Note 2798, Zopfiella

 

Zopfiella. G. Winter.

Citation when using this data: Huang SK et al. 2021 – Fungalpedia.

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Classification: Lasiosphaeriaceae, Sordariales, Sordariomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Saprobic on wood or coprophilous. Sexual morph: Ascomata cleistothecial, scattered, superficial, globose to subglobose, brown, surrounded by septate, olive to yellow-green hairs. Peridium membranaceous, comprising brown to olivaceous brown cells of textura angularis. Asci 4–8-spored, unitunicate, cylindrical to clavate, evanescent. Ascospores bi-seriate, upper cell(s) ellipsoidal to fusiform, aseptate to multi-septate, pale brown to dark brown, with an apical germ pore and a truncate base; lower cell hyaline, cylindrical, gelatinous, evanescent. Asexual morph: Hyphomycetous, humicola-like. Conidia globose, hyaline to pale brown (adapted from Winter 1884; Guarro et al. 1991). 

Notes: Zopfiella is characterized by cleistothecial ascomata and ascospores comprise ellipsoidal, brown upper cell(s) and a cylindrical, hyaline pedicel (Winter 1884; Guarro et al. 1991). In subsequent phylogenetic analyses Zopfiella species scattered in Naviculisporaceae, Podosporaceae and Neoschizotheciaceae (Wang et al. 2019; Marin-Felix et al. 2020; this study). However, the generic type, Z. tabulata is sister to Podospora didyma in Lasiosphaeriaceae clade I (100%ML/0.95PP).

Type species: Zopfiella tabulata (Zopf) G. Winter, Rabenh. Krypt.-Fl., Edn 2 (Leipzig) 1.2: 56 (1884).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Zopfiella.

 

References

Guarro J, Cannon PF, van der Aa HA 1991 – A synopsis of the genus Zopfiella (Ascomycetes, Lasiosphaeriaceae). Systema Ascomycetum 10(2):79–112.

Marin-Felix Y, Miller AN, Cano-Lira JF et al 2020 – Re-evaluation of the order Sordariales: Delimitation of Lasiosphaeriaceae s. str., and introduction of the new families Diplogelasinosporaceae, Naviculisporaceae, and Schizotheciaceae. Microorganisms 8(9):1430.

Winter G 1884 – Rabenhorst’s Kryptogamen-Flora, Pilze – Ascomyceten, vol 1, vol 2.

 

Entry by

Shi-Ke Huang, State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China, The Engineering Research Center of Southwest Bio-Pharmaceutical Resources, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, Guizhou Province, 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, The Mushroom Research Centre, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China

 

Published online 18 June 2026

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