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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 [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 116 Anastomitrabeculia   Anastomitrabeculia Bhunjun, Phukhams. & K.D. Hyde Citation when using this entry: Norphanphoun et al., in prep – Fungalpedia, genera and higher taxa described in 2021. Mycosphere. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1. Bhunjun et al. (2021) introduced Anastomitrabeculia as a monotypic genus within Anastomitrabeculiaceae, Pleosporales with the type species Anastomitrabeculia didymospora. Anastomitrabeculia fits the morphology of Pleosporales by having perithecioid ascomata, pseudoparaphyses, bitunicate asci and hyaline, septate ascospores (Hongsanan et al. 2020). The taxon was introduced as a saprobe based on morphology, phylogenetic analyses and divergence time estimates using a combined LSU, SSU and tef-1α dataset. Anastomitrabeculiaceae is closely related to Halojulellaceae, however, Halojulellaceae is morphologically different due to the presence of cellular pseudoparaphyses and golden brown ascospores (Ariyawansa et al. 2013). Anastomitrabeculia is known only from its sexual morph and it is characterised by having carbonaceous ascomata, [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 8 Anisofilariata   Anisofilariata Y.S. Tokarev, V.N. Voronin, E.V. Seliverstova, V.V. Dolgikh, O.A. Pavlova, A.N. Ignatieva & I.V. Issi   Citation if using this entry: Fahalli et al. (2023) New genera in 2010-2011. Mycosphere (in press) Index Fungorum Identifier 92219, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1. The monotypic genus Anisofilariata was introduced by Tokarev et al (2010) with an uncertain position in Microsporidia, Protozoa with Anisofilariata chironomi as the type species. The strain was isolated from larvae of Chironomus plumosus as a parasite, in north-western Russia (Tokarev et al. 2010). The genus name refers to the anisofilar polar filament, one of the distinguishing features of the genus. This microsporidium has broad, oval, uninucleate spores in sporophorous vesicles, and is distinct from other known microsporidian species by sporogony and spore ultrastructure that suggests the establishment of a new [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 67 Anthonectria   Anthonectria Döbbeler Citation if using this entry: Fallahi et al. (2023) New genera in 2010-2011. Mycosphere (in prep). Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1. The hyperepiphyllous genus Anthonectria with the sole species Anthonectria mammispora was established by Döbbeler (2010) in Bionectriaceae, Hypocreales. Anthonectria is a unispecific genus that was sex- and organ-specific and seemed to be limited to particular hosts. This perithecial ascomycete inevitably infects the growing sporophytes of epiphyllous hepatics like Marchantiophyta, Porellales, Lejeuneaceae, and Radulales. Anthonectria was described based on morphological characters, and molecular information was not available for this genus. Anthonectria mammispora is distinguished from other nectrioid fungi by a set of unique features. It has pale, perianth-perforating perithecia without any stromatic structures. There are irregular, thick-walled hyphae of the excipulum. The fungus has unitunicate [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 242, Aphanoascus   Aphanoascus Zukal, Ber. dt. bot. Ges. Citation when using this entry: Thakshila et al. 2024 (in prep) – Fungalpedia, Onygenales, Eurotiales, and Verrucariales. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1 Classification: Onygenaceae, Onygenales, Eurotiomycetidae, Eurotiomycetes, Fungi Zukal (1890) introduced Aphanoascus, which is characterized by Aphanoascus cinnabarinus as the type species.   The strain was isolated from an alligator dung in Vienna, Austria. Based on morphological similarities, Apinis (1968) reported that Anixiopsis stercoraria and A. cinnabarinus were the same species. Udagawa & Takada (1973) isolated the neotype of A. cinnabarinus from the soil in Japan. Cano & Guarro (1990) reported that Anixiopsis cinnabarinus is distinct from A. stercoraria, by its reticulated and ridged ascospores. Anixiopsis cinnabarinus is characterized by superficial, subspherical to ovate cleistothecium ascomata, and the cleistothecium consists of pseudo-parenchymatous to scleroid membranous peridium. Asci are 8 [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 78 Aphelidiales   Aphelidiales Tedersoo, Sánchez-Ramírez, Kõljalg, Bahram, Döring, Schigel, T. May, M. Ryberg & Abarenkov Citation when using this entry: Wijayawardene et al., in prep – Fungalpedia, taxa of the basal fungi and fungus-like organisms. Mycosphere. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank Aphelidiales (Aphelidiomycetes, Aphelidiomycota) was introduced within Holomycota in the Kingdom Fungi based on phylogenies and divergence time estimates (Tedersoo et al. 2018). Aphelidiales belongs to subkingdom Aphelidiomyceta, phylum Aphelidiomycota (= Aphelida), subphylum Aphelidiomycotina, in class Aphelidiomycetes (= Aphelidea) (Gromov et al. 2000, Tedersoo et al. 2018). The order contains one family Aphelidiaceae (= Aphelididae), comprising four genera (Aphelidium, Paraphelidium, Amoeboaphelidium, Pseudaphelidium) Thirteen Aphelidium species are listed in Index Fungorum (2023). The morphology diagnosis of Aphelidiales was mentioned in Tedersoo et al. (2018), Gromov (2000) and Karpov et al. (2014). Type genus: Aphelidium Zopf   References Gromov BV. 2000 – Algal parasites of [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 155, Appendicisporonites (Fossil Fungi)   Appendicisporonites R.K. Saxena & S. Khare  Citation when using this data: Saxena RK & Hyde KD. 2024 (in prep) – Fungalpedia, Fossil Fungi.  Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1 Classification: Microthyriales, Ascomycota, Fossil Fungi. The monotypic fossil genus Appendicisporonites was described from the Neyveli Formation (Eocene, 56–40 mya) of Jayamkondacholapurum Well-12, Tiruchirapalli District, Tamil Nadu, India (Saxena & Khare 1992). Appendicisporonites is characterized by subcircular, inaperturate, and multicellular fungal spores. Each cell possesses a long process, processes septate or nonseptate, with pointed or blunt tips, and wall psilate. According to Kalgutkar & Jansonius (2000), the illustrated specimen appears to be related to the setose pycnidia found in some Coelomycetes. Only one species listed in Index Fungorum (2023) under this genus. Type species: Appendicisporonites typicus R.K. Saxena & S. Khare     Figure 1 – Appendicisporonites typicus. Scale bar = [...]