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Fungalpedia – Note 419, Elenkiniana    Elenkiniana S.Y. Kondr., Kärnefelt, Elix, A. Thell & Hur Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.  Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1  Classification: Teloschistaceae, Teloschistales, Lecanoromycetidae, Lecanoromycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi. Based on morphology and single gene phylogeny analysis of ITS, LSU, and SSU, Kondratyuk et al. (2014) introduced Elenkiniana to accommodate the type species Elenkiniana gloriae (basionym: Caloplaca gloriae), Elenkiniana ehrenbergii (basionym: Amphiloma ehrenbergii), and Elenkiniana gomerana (basionym: Caloplaca gomerana). Elenkiniana is mainly characterized by a lobate, yellow to orange thallus, with pseudocyphellae, cortical layer paraplectenchymatous, true exciple often indistinct, lecanorine apothecia, 8-spored asci, polarilocular ascospores, and bacilliform to narrowly bacilliform conidia (Kondratyuk et al. 2014). Morphologically, Elenkiniana is similar to Gyalolechia, but differs in lobate thalli, laminal pseudocyphellae, lack of numerous crystals in the cortical layer, and lack [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 74 Elongaticonidia   Elongaticonidia W.J. Li, E. Campores & K.D. Hyde Citation when using this data: Huanraluek et al. (in prep), Fungalpedia, coelomycetes Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Coleomycetes.org, Fig1. Elongaticonidia was introduced as a saprobe on dead spines of Rosa canina from Italy (Li et al. 2020), and is a monotypic genus until today. Phylogenetic analyses based on LSU sequence data showed that Elongaticonidia is closer to Mulderomyces, but it formed a separate branch in Ostropales (Lecanoromycetes) (Li et al. 2020, Wijayawardene et al. 2021). Conidiomata are black, pycnidial, solitary to gregarious, subepidermal, immersed, globose to subglobose and ostiolate. Ostioles are short and centrally located. The conidiomata wall is composed of thick-walled, dark brown to brown cells of textura angularis. The conidiophores are reduced to conidiogenous cells. Conidiogenous cells form from the inner layer of the conidiomata, are pale brown to hyaline, holothallic, [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 186, Elsikisporonites (Fossil fungi)   Elsikisporonites Kumar  Citation when using this data: Saxena RK & Hyde KD. (2024) in prep – Fungalpedia, Fossil Fungi.  Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1 Classification: Helicosporae, Fossil Fungi.  Kumar (1990) described the monotypic fossil genus, Elsikisporonites, from the Quilon Beds (Early-Middle Miocene, 23–11.6 mya) located in Kollam District, Kerala, India (Locality: Padappakkara) along the west coast of South India. Elsikisporonites is characterized by monoporate, nonseptate, tubular, and coiled spores having nozzle-like pores at the outer end and smooth and hyaline spore walls. Type species: Elsikisporonites tubulatus Kumar 1990.   Figure 1 – Elsikisporonites tubulatus. Scale bar = 10 μm. Redrawn from Kumar (1990).   References Kumar P. 1990 – Fungal remains from the Miocene Quilon Bed of Kerala state, South India. Review of Palaeobotany & Palynology 63, 13–28.   Entry by Ramesh [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 17 Embarria   Citation: Bhunjun et al. 2023 – Fungalpedia, genera described in 2018, Mycosphere (in press)   Embarria Wanas., Camporesi & K.D. Hyde Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1 Embarria was introduced in Phaeosphaeriaceae (Pleosporales, Dothideomycetes) by Wanasinghe et al. (2018) to accommodate a new combination, E. clematidis (≡ Allophaeosphaeria clematidis) based on multi-gene phylogenetic analyses of a combined LSU, SSU, ITS and tef sequence data. The type species Embarria clematidis, was reported as a saprobe in Italy from dead and hanging branches of Clematis vitalba (Ranunculaceae) (Ariyawansa et al. 2015) and recollected from dead aerial stems of Agrostis stolonifera L. (Poaceae) (Wanasinghe et al. 2018). Embarria is known only from its sexual state and is characterized by coriaceous, ostiolate ascomata, bitunicate, fissitunicate asci with a minute ocular chamber, and ellipsoidal to fusoid, asymmetrical, muriform ascospores [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 364, Embryonispora   Embryonispora G.Z. Zhao Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1           Classification: Incertae sedis, Incertae sedis, Incertae sedis, Incertae sedis, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi. Embryonispora was established by Zhao et al. (2013) with Embryonispora bambusicola as the type species and the only known species in this genus. Embryonispora bambusicola was found on dead culms of bamboo and dead branches of an unidentified tree in China, and the asexual morph of Embryonispora was characterized by sporodochial, superficial conidiomata; immersed mycelium; undifferentiated conidiophores reduced to conidiogenous cells; conidiogenous cells monoblastic, integrated, terminal, determinate; conidial secession schizolytic, with forming solitary, acrogenous, muriform, reniform or flattened, dorsiventrally curved, holoblastic, olivaceous, pale brown to brown conidia, and conidia variable in shape, with longitudinal, transverse and oblique septa (Zhao et al. [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 243, Emmonsiellopsis   Emmonsiellopsis Y. Marín, Stchigel, Guarro & Cano. Citation when using this entry: Thakshila et al. 2024 (in prep) – Fungalpedia, Onygenales, Eurotiales, and Verrucariales.  Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1 Classification: Ajellomycetaceae, Onygenales, Eurotiomycetidae, Eurotiomycetes, Fungi Marin-Felix et al. (2015) introduced Emmonsiellopsis as a new genus in Ajellomycetaceae, based on ITS and D1/D2 sequences and typified with E. terrestris. Emmonsiellopsis terrestris and E. coralliformis were isolated from fluvial sediments in Girona, Spain. Emmonsiellopsis is not recorded as pathogenic to mammals, as other genera in this family (Marin-Felix et al. 2015). Only an asexual state has been reported for this genus. Emmonsiellopsis is characterized by smooth-walled, verrucose, spinulose, and rarely septate conidia, born sessile or pedicels. The hyphae are septate, branched, hyaline, smooth, and thin to thick-walled. Emmonsiellopsis terrestris and E. coralliformis are morphologically similar in producing long and inflated pedicels, [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 128 Epicoccum   Epicoccum Link Citation when using this entry: Aumentado et al. in prep – Fungalpedia, plant pathogens. Mycosphere. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig *. Ascomycota, Pezizomycotina, Dothideomycetes, Pleosporomycetidae, Pleosporales, Didymellaceae Epicoccum is characterized by its epicoccoid conidia and placed in the Didymellaceae with E. nigrum as its type species (Aveskamp et al. 2010). Epicoccum was emended by Aveskamp et al. (2010) and Chen et al. (2015) to accommodate seven species previously belonging to Phoma with their definite morphology and phylogenetic placement establishing the genus. Additional features including irregular pycnidial conidiomata and subcylindrical conidia were supplemented to delineate these species (Chen et al. 2015). There are 89 recognized species of Epicoccum listed in Species Fungorum (2023), however, only 50 species are identified from culture and molecular sequence data based on the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region and the [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 169, Epithamnolia   Epithamnolia Zhurb. Citation when using this entry: Madagammana et al. 2024 (in prep) – Fungalpedia, genera described in 2012.  Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1. Classification: Mniaeciaceae, Leotiales, Leotiomycetes, Ascomycota Epithamnolia is a lichenicolous genus introduced by Zhurbenko (2012), based on morphology, with the type species E. karatyginii, found on Thamnolia species in Canada. Epithamnolia is characterized by pycnidial, rugose, irregularly subglobose, blackish conidiomata becoming cupuliform with age. Conidiomata are initially closed, with an irregular opening, sub-immersed in thalli to finally superficial, arising singly and dispersed. The exciple is dark to medium brown throughout, with textura angularis, textura globulosa or textura porrecta cells. Conidiophores are absent, and conidiogenous cells line the pycnidial cavity. The conidiogenous cells are enteroblastic, phialidic, with indistinct collarette, with periclinal thickening, not proliferating, hyaline, and lageniform to [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 211, Ericiosphaeria   Ericiosphaeria Réblová & Hern. -Restr. Citation when using this entry: Silva et al. 2024 (in prep). – Fungalpedia, Sordariomycetidae.  Index Fungorum; Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1 Classification: Chaetosphaeriaceae, Chaetosphaeriales, Sordariomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Fungi. Ericiosphaeria was introduced by Réblová & Hern.-Restr (2021) to accommodate E. spinosa (F.A. Fernández & Huhndorf) Réblová & Hern.-Restr as a new combination. This monospecific genus has been incorporated into the taxonomic classification of Sordariomycetidae, specifically in Chaetosphaeriales, within Chaetosphaeriaceae (Index Fungorum 2023). This is supported by molecular evidence derived from combined ITS-LSU sequence analysis, along with a morphological comparisons (Réblová & Hern.-Restr 2021). Ericiosphaeria is a saprobe that decays bark and wood, and currently reported only from North America (Fernández & Huhndorf 2005, Réblová & Hern.-Restr 2021). The asexual morph has a phialidic conidiogenesis. Setae are absent. Simple, solitary, [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 372, Erinacellus   Erinacellus T. Sprib., Muggia & Tønsberg Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Lichenicolous fungi. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1           Classification: Incertae sedis, Peltigerales, Lecanoromycetidae, Lecanoromycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi. Based on phylogenies of LSU, SSU and mitochondrial 12S analyses and morphological studies, Spribille et al. (2014) established Erinacellus to accommodate the type species Erinacellus dendroides (=Spilonema dendroides) and Erinacellus schmidtii (=Leptodendriscum schmidtii). Erinacellus is ascomycetes lichenized with the cyanobacterial genus Hyphomorpha, thallus comprised of a dense cushion of erect, threadlike branches, differentiated into primary branches, which are light grey or dark brown, and secondary and tertiary branches which are dark brown, terminal branching nearly isotomic dichotomous, fungal hyphae enclosing photobiont in continuous sheath, the sheathing fungal cells rectangular (Spribille et al. 2014). No additional species have been included in this genus, which currently comprises only two [...]