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Fungalpedia - Note 357, Cryptomarasmius    Cryptomarasmius T.S. Jenkinson & Desjardin Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Parasites. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1           Classification: Physalacriaceae, Agaricales, Agaricomycetidae, Agaricomycetes, Agaricomycotina, Basidiomycota, Fungi Cryptomarasmius contains the term "crypto," meaning "hidden," and it is combined with another word, Marasmius. This alludes to the historical association of the species with Marasmius as well as the frequently concealed, diminutive fruit bodies they generate. This genus was established by Jenkinson et al. (2014) and typified with Cryptomarasmius corbariensis. Cryptomarasmius is characterized by diminutive, marcescent, convex basidiomes, ranging from smooth to rugulose, occasionally spinulose, and may even or striate. They are dry, typically darkly pigmented, and pallid infrequently. The lamellae range from vein-like to well-developed, seldom absent, and possess a smooth hymenophore. They are free to adnate, never collariate, and remote to subdistant, appearing pallid. [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 167, Cucurbitariaceites (Fossil Fungi)   Cucurbitariaceites R.K. Kar, R.Y. Singh & S.C.D. Sah. Citation when using this data: Saxena RK & Hyde KD. 2024 (in prep) – Fungalpedia, Fossil Fungi.  Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1 Classification: Dothideales, Fossil Ascomycota, Fungi The monotypic fossil genus Cucurbitariaceites was described by Kar et al. (1972) from the Tura Formation (Palaeocene, 66–56 mya) in Nongwal Bibra, Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India. This genus is characterized by subcircular to circular Pseudoperithecia, outer region darker than inner, laevigate. Asci are equal or unequal in size, cylindrical to somewhat bulging at the tips in the mature stage. No true paraphysis was observed, but in some specimens, the basal part of asci may join together to form a broad, irregular, mesh-like structure. Cucurbitariaceites bellus has been recorded from various states of India, e.g. Andaman [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 310, Cymostachys   Cymostachys L. Lombard & Crous Citation when using this entry: Perera et al. 2024 (in prep) – Fungalpedia, genera described in 2016.  Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1 Classification: Stachybotryaceae, Hypocreales, Hypocreomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi             Lombard et al. (2016) erected Cymostachys for a group of stachybotrys-like taxa that produce irregularly cymosely branched conidiophores and olivaceous brown to dark brown, fabiform conidia. Furthermore, they are distantly related to Stachybotrys s. str. in the phylogenetic analysis of cmdA, ITS, rpb2, and tub2 (Lombard et al. 2016). The conidiophores are macronematous, mononematous and arrange mostly in groups. They are erect, septate, irregularly cymosely branched, and hyaline to subhyaline, with thin and smooth to slightly verrucose walls. The conidiophores generated 3–6 phialidic conidiogenous cells from the [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 11 Dasyatispora   Dasyatispora A. Diamant, M. Goren, M.B. Yokes, B.S. Galil, Y. Klopman, D. Huchon, A. Szitenberg & S.Ü. Karhan   Citation if using this entry: Fahalli et al. (2023) New genera in 2010-2011. Mycosphere (in press) Index Fungorum Identifier 92221, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1. The monotypic genus Dasyatispora (Microsporidia, Protozoa) was introduced by Diamant et al. (2010). Dasyatispora levantinae, the type species of the genus was isolated from the Mediterranean common stingray Dasyatis pastinaca in Iskenderun Bay, Turkey. Disc muscle invasion by the parasite results in thin, spindle-shaped subcutaneous swellings that grow into large, elongated, tumor-like protuberances. These masses contained a yellowish-white caseous material made up of damaged host tissue and microsporidian sporophorous vesicles, which in turn contained sporonts, sporoblasts, and spores. The mature spore has a large posterior vacuole and a uni-nucleate [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 370, Datroniella   Datroniella B.K. Cui, Hai J. Li & Y.C. Dai Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Macrofungi. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1 Classification: Polyporaceae, Polyporales, Incertae sedis, Agaricomycetes, Agaricomycotina, Basidiomycota, Fungi Based on phylogenetic analyses of ITS, LSU, and RBP2 and morphological studies, Li et al. (2014) proposed Datroniella as a new genus to accommodate four new species (Datroniella melanocarpa, Datroniella subtropica, Datroniella tibetica, and Datroniella tropica) and one species transferred from Datronia (Datroniella scutellata) as the type species. Subsequently, Datroniella minuta was introduced into this genus by de Lira et al. (2016). Later, the five species from Li et al. (2014) were transferred to Cerioporus based on a comparison of their morphological features by Zmitrovich (2018). Therefore, currently, only D. minuta belongs to this genus, which can be found in the dead wood found in [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 198, Deccanodia (Fossil Fungi)   Deccanodia Singhai. Citation when using this data: Saxena RK & Hyde KD. 2024 (in prep) – Fungalpedia, Fossil Fungi.  Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1 Classification: Sphaeropsidales, Fossil Ascomycota.  The monotypic genus Deccanodia was instituted by Singhai (1974) from the Deccan Intertrappean Beds (Late Cretaceous–Maastrichtian, 72–66 mya) of Mohgaonkalan, Chhindwara District, Madhya Pradesh, India. It is characterized by brown, more or less globose, non-ostiolate, thick-walled pycnidium, 345 × 364 µm in size; conidia many, faintly to dark brown in a mass, unequally 2–celled, oblong or ellipsoid, with their ends pointed or rounded, or one end pointed and the other round, measuring 12–24 × 2–8 µm. According to Singhai (1974), the fossil fungus resembles the extant imperfect fungus Diplodia Fr. in its pycnidium and 2-celled, brown, and mostly ellipsoid conidia (Barnett 1960, Gilman [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 373, Dendrochytridium   Dendrochytridium Letcher, Longcore & M.J. Powell             Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Chytridiomycota. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1           Classification: Chytridiaceae, Chytridiales, Chytridiomycetidae, Chytridiomycetes, Chytridiomycotina, Chytridiomycota, Fungi.              Based on genetic, morphological, and ultrastructural evidence, Letcher et al. (2014) established Dendrochytridium accommodates the chytrid Dendrochytridium crassum (type species) in Chytridiaceae. Dendrochytridium is characterized by endogenous, monocentric, eucarpic, white in mass culture; sporangium rhizoids endobiotic, epibiotic; sporangium spherical to oblate; zoospores posteriorly uniflagellate, subspherical, eccentric, or irregular upon release, becoming spherical; kinetosome-associated structure spherical; flagellar plug composed of three layers. The zoospore ultrastructure of Dendrochytridium is less complex than that of other members of Chytridiaceae (Letcher et al. 2014). No further species have been introduced to Dendrochytridium which remains monotypic. [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 199, Dendromyceliates (Fossil Fungi)   Dendromyceliates K.P. Jain & R.K. Kar. Citation when using this data: Saxena RK & Hyde KD. 2024 (in prep) – Fungalpedia, Fossil Fungi.  Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1. Classification: Mycelia sterilia, Fossil Fungi.  Jain & Kar (1979) instituted the monotypic genus Dendromyceliates from the Miocene sediments of Chanakkodi, Quilon District, Kerala Coast, South India. The original diagnosis of Dendromyceliates is as follows: “Hyphae thick-walled, septate, cylindrical, base swollen, hyphae length divided into several cells by septa, cells with or without pores, generally uniporate. The tip of hyphae dichotomously branched 3-4 times, acutely pointed.” Dendromyceliates is conspicuous by the presence of dichotomously branched tips of the hyphae. The basal part of the hyphae shows some disc-like structures, which perhaps point out that the hyphae were attached to some other organ – probably [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 227, Diamantinia   Diamantinia A.N. Mill., Læssøe & Huhndorf. Citation when using this entry: Doilom et al. 2024 (in prep) – Fungalpedia,  Xylariomycetidae.  Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1 Classification: Xylariaceae, Xylariales, Xylariomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi Diamantinia was established based on the morphology by Miller et al. (2003), with D. citrina as the type species which was collected from decaying decorticated wood and corticated branches on the ground in dry deciduous shrubby vegetation in Bahia, Brazil. This monotypic genus is characterized by black, superficial, turbinate stromata, surface minutely roughened, filiform paraphyses, 8-spored, cylindrical asci, amyloid, and apical ring shallow with flaring margins. Ascospores are broadly fusiform, initially hyaline, one-celled, and becoming two-celled by the formation of a transverse septum; upper cell consisting of a swollen, brown head with a narrow, longitudinal germ slit; lower cell consisting of a [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 274, Diatrypasimilis   Diatrypasimilis Jian L. Zhou & Kohlm. Citation when using this entry: Perera et al. 2024 (in prep) – Fungalpedia, genera described in 2016. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1 Classification: Diatrypaceae, Xylariales, Xylariomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi                         Chalkley et al. (2010) established the monotypic genus Diatrypasimilis with D. australiensis as the type, based on ITS, LSU and SSU markers. Diatrypasimilis australiensis was isolated from the dead intertidal roots of Rhizophora (Chalkley et al. 2010). However, the name D. australiensis was not valid because it was published with the MycoBank identifier MB 515026, which has been already issued for another name. Therefore, the name was effectively published by Suh (2016). The sexual morph of the genus is characterized by thick stroma [...]