Fungalpedia – Note 2799, Zygopleurage
Zygopleurage. Boedijn.
Citation when using this data: Huang SK et al. 2021 – Fungalpedia.
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Classification: Neoschizotheciaceae, Sordariales, Sordariomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Coprophilous. Sexual morph: Ascomata perithecial, solitary to scattered, superficial to semi-immersed, semi-transparent, pyriform to subglobose, olivaceous-brown to black, verrucose, ostiolate, with short necks. Peridium comprising membranaceous, hyaline to brown cells of textura angularis. Asci 4–8-spored, unitunicate, cylindrical to clavate, pedicellate, apex rounded. Ascospores irregularly arranged or spirally coiled around each other, hyaline, cylindrical to fusiform, aseptate when young, becoming elongate, the terminal cells swelling fusiform or oval and dark brown or olivaceous-brown with truncate base; the intercalary cell elongate, hyaline, sometimes slightly swelling when mature, usually 3-celled, sometimes multi-septate, with gelatinous appendages. Asexual morph: Undetermined (adapted from Boedijn 1962; Mirza and Nasir 1968; Lundqvist 1969, 1972).
Notes: All three species of Zygopleurage were collected from dung, especially cow dung, and the generic type, Zygopleurage zygospora, was first found in Italy and Zygopleurage faiyumensis and Z. multicaudata were collected in Egypt and Pakistan respectively (Boedijn 1962; Mirza and Nasir 1968; Lundqvist 1969). Lundqvist (1972) proposed that this genus is similar to Lasiosphaeria and Podospora based on ascospores comprise two brown cells connected by a long hyaline cell. Huhndorf et al. (2004b) sequenced Z. zygospora (SMH4219). In this study, this strain nested in Neoschizotheciaceae with 94%ML support.
Type species: Zygopleurage zygospora (Speg.) Boedijn, Persoonia 2(3): 316 (1962).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Zygopleurage.
Figure 1 – Zygopleurage zygospora: a–h (S-F43798); i (redrawn from Lundqvist 1969). a Herbarium material label. b Ascoma on host. c Ascoma in cross section. d Neck with periphyses. e Peridium. f–h Asci. i Ascospores. Scale bars: b = 500 µm, c = 200 µm, d. f–h = 100 µm, e. i = 50 µm.
References
Lundqvist N 1969 – Zygopleurage and Zygospermella. Bot Notiser 122:353–374.
Lundqvist N 1972 – Nordic Sordariaceae s. lat. Symbolae Botanicae Upsalienses 20:1–374.
Mirza JH, Nasir MA 1968 – Additions to the coprophilous fungi of West Pakistan II. Nova Hedwigia 16:283–288.
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