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Fungalpedia – Note 291, Albifimbria   Albifimbria 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 Albifimbria to accomodate Myrothecium verrucaria (= Peziza verrucaria) and other three taxa that clustered distant to the Myrothecium s.str. clade in the phylogenetic analysis of cmdA, ITS, rpb2, tef1 and tub2 regions. Albifimbria species were isolated from soil, dead hardwood, leaf of Solanum tubersum and basidioma of a resupinate polypore (Lombard et al. 2016). The genus is characterized by sporodochial conidiomata or simple conidiophores. Simple conidiophores emerge directly from superficial hyphae and, are dolliform, reniform or allantoid, and hyaline with smooth-walls. Sporodochia are stromatic, superficial, cupulate to discoid, scattered to gregarious [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 12 Alborbis   Citation: Bhunjun et al. 2023 – Fungalpedia, genera described in 2018, Mycosphere (in press)   Alborbis Crous Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1 Alborbis galericulata was previously introduced as Cryptodiaporthe galericulata, but it is phylogenetically and morphologically different from the type species of Cryptodiaporthe (Kruys & Castlebury 2012). Based on phylogenetic analysis of ITS, LSU, tef and rpb2 sequences, A. galericulata formed a clade in Sydowiellaceae (Senanayake et al. 2017). Hence, the monophyletic genus Alborbis was introduced by Senanayake et al. (2017), with a single species A. galericulata. It is classified under Sordariomycetes, Diaporthomycetidae, Diaporthales, Sydowiellaceae (Senanayake et al. 2017). The name of this genus means the ascomata opens up to the surface of its host through a whiten disk, which is derived from two Latin words “alba” and “orbis” (Senanayake et al. 2017). The type [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 66 Allantophomopsiella   Allantophomopsiella Crous Citation when using this data: Huanraluek et al. Fungalpedia, coelomycetes. Mycosphere (in prep). Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Coelomycetes.org, Fig 1. Allantophomopsiella was described based on ITS and LSU sequence data and was transferred to Leotiomycetes (Phacidiaceae, Phacidiales, Leotiomycetidae) (Li et al. 2020).   Allantophomopsiella is a monotypic genus (https://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/Names.asp on 18 May 2023). Conidiomata of this genus are pycnidial, immersed, septate conidiophores arise from the inner layer of the conidiomata, conidiogenous cells are integrated or discrete, ampulliform to subcylindrical or lageniform, hyaline and conidia are ellipsoid to fusiform, hyaline, smooth, aseptate, guttulate, bearing mucoid apical appendages, flabelliform to irregular in shape (Crous et al. 2014, Li et al. 2020). This genus is distributed in Austria, Canada, Germany, Latvia, Sweden, the UK, and the USA (Crous et al. 2015, Li et al. 2020). Allantophomopsiella is morphologically related to [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 150, Alleppeysporonites (Fossil Fungi)   Alleppeysporonites Ramanujam & K.P. Rao. Citation when using this data: Saxena RK & Hyde KD. 2024 (in prep) – Fungalpedia, Fossil Fungi.  Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1 Classification: Ascomycota incertae cedis  The monotypic fossil genus, Alleppeysporonites, was described from the Quilon and Warkalli beds (Miocene, 23–5 mya) of Kerala along the west coast of South India. It was also rarely seen in the clay samples of the Padappakkara area (Ramanujam & Rao 1978). Alleppeysporonites was diagnosed as follows: “Spores branched, brownish, multicellular, inaperturate, septa transverse, and branches one or two per spore, gently curved. Basal and terminal cells each have a conspicuous appendage. The spore wall is psilate to scabrate.” The branched nature and the presence of appendages are essential features of this spore type. The fossil taxon resembles the [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 271, Alloanthostomella   Alloanthostomella Daranag., Camporesi & K.D. Hyde Citation when using this entry: Perera et al. 2024 (in prep) – Fungalpedia, genera described in 2016. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1 Classification: Incertae sedis, Xylariales, Xylariomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi Daranagama et al. (2016) established the monotypic genus Alloanthostomella to accommodate Anthostomella rubicola, based on the phylogenetic analysis of ITS, LSU, rpb2 and tub2 molecular markers. The recognition of A. rubicola as a separate genus by Daranagama et al. (2016) was not supported by the analyses by Voglmayr et al. (2018), as it was clustered within the Anthostomella clade. Daranagama et al. (2018) treated Alloanthostomella in Hypoxylaceae owing to its close phylogenetic affinity to core hypoxyloid species. However, the genus was transferred to Xylariales incertae sedis by Samarakoon et al. (2022) based [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 361, Alloconiothyrium   Alloconiothyrium Verkley, Göker & Stielow Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1           Classification: Didymosphaeriaceae, Pleosporales, Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi. The monotypic genus Alloconiothyrium (Didymosphaeriaceae) was established by Verkley et al. (2014) with the type species Alloconiothyrium aptrootii. To date, only three species have been accepted in Alloconiothyrium, including the type species, and these species have been isolated from different substrates. Alloconiothyrium aptrootii was isolated from a soil sample, A. camelliae was isolated from the leaves of Camellia sinensis, and A. encephalarti was isolated from Encephalartos sp. (Zamiaceae) (Verkley et al. 2014, Crous et al. 2019, Ariyawansa et al. 2020). The asexual morph of Alloconiothyrium was characterized by pycnidial or eustromatic conidiomata, holoblastic, annellidic conidiogenous cells, and olivaceous-brown and irregular outline, surface roughened conidia, globose, think-walled, brown chlamydospores (Verkley et al. 2014). Type species: Alloconiothyrium aptrootii Verkley, Göker & Stielow Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Alloconiothyrium [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 182, Allodiatrype   Allodiatrype Konta & K.D. Hyde   Citation when using this entry: Li et al. 2024 (in prep) – Fungalpedia.  Xylariomycetidae.  Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1 Classification: Diatrypaceae, Xylariales, Xylariomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi In 2020, Konta et al. (2020) proposed Allodiatrype to include A. arengae as its type species. Allodiatrype was discovered as a saprobe, thriving on the petiole of Arenga pinnata (Arecaceae) in the Phang-Nga Province of Thailand. Allodiatrype is characterized by aggregated, brown, globose to sub-globose, ostiolate ascomata; cylindrical, unitunicate, with cylindrical, with J-, 8-spored asci with apical ring; seriate, allantoid, hyaline becoming yellowish, unicellular ascospores with small fat globules at each end (Konta et al. 2020). Allodiatrype is similar to Diatrype species, with globose to subglobose ascomata, hyaline asci, ellipsoidal to cylindrical or elongate-allantoid, and aseptate ascospores. Nevertheless, Allodiatrype contains 1-10 ascomata immersed in a single stroma, with or without a black stromatic area. On [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 126 Allophoma   Allophoma Qian Chen & L. Cai Citation when using this entry: Aumentado et al. in prep – Fungalpedia, plant pathogens. Mycosphere.  Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank Ascomycota, Pezizomycotina, Dothideomycetes, Pleosporomycetidae, Pleosporales, Didymellaceae Allophoma was recognized by Chen et al. (2015) with A. tropica as the type species based on morphological characteristics and phylogenetic studies. Allophoma was introduced to encompass a novel species and five species previously included in Phoma with various shaped conidia (Chen et al. 2015). There are 14 established species identified through morpho-molecular data analysis employing genetic markers such as the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region and the 28S large ribosomal subunit RNA (LSU) gene and protein-coding genes: beta-tubulin (β-tub), and RNA polymerase II second largest subunit (rpb2) gene regions (Chen et al. 2015, 2017, Valenzuela-Lopez et al. 2018, Babaahmadi et al. 2018, Marin-Felix et al. 2019, Jayasiri et [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 115 Alveariospora   Alveariospora Meir. Silva, R.F. Castañeda, O.L. Pereira & R.W. Barreto Citation: Madagammana et al., in prep – Fungalpedia, genera described in 2012. Mycosphere. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1 Alveariospora was introduced by Silva et al. (2012) with A. distoseptata as the type species. Alveariospora is an asexual genus that is listed under Ascomycota genera incertae sedis (Wijayawardene et al. 2022). This genus was introduced using only morphology. Therefore, new isolates and sequence data are required to confirm the phylogenetic position of this genus. Alveariospora is characterized by single, unbranched, septate, brown, or olivaceous conidiophores, muriform, dictyosporous, distoseptate, verruculose conidia from large, thickened, dark washer-like conidiogenous loci (Silva et al. 2012). Morphologically, Alveariospora is similar to Briansuttonia, Dictyospiropes, and Veracruzomyces (Silva et al. 2012). However, Briansuttonia differs from Alveariospora by having monotretic, terminal, determinate, or indeterminate cells that are [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 168,Anaseptoidium   Anaseptoidium R.F. Castañeda, Heredia & R.M. Arias Citation when using this entry: Madagammana et al. 2024 (in prep) – Fungalpedia, genera described in 2012.  Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1 Classification: Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi. Anaseptoidium, an asexual genus introduced by Castañeda-Ruiz et al. (2012), based on morphology, accommodates A. mycophilum as the type species. Due to the lack of sequence data, this genus is listed under the Ascomycota genera incertae sedis (Wijayawardene et al. 2022). Hence, additional taxon sampling and sequence data are necessary to confirm the phylogenetic position of this genus. Anaseptoidium is characterized by effuse, creeping, and brown colonies on the natural substrate. Mycelia are superficial and immersed, with branched and septate hyphae, while stomatopodia are absent. Conidiophores are macronematous, mononematous, erect, and pale brown, sometimes [...]