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Fungalpedia - Note 412, Fodinomyces   Fodinomyces Vázq.-Camp. Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1           Classification: Teratosphaeriaceae, Mycosphaerellales, Dothideomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi Fodinomyces was introduced by Vázquez-Campos et al. (2014) and typified with Fodinomyces uranophilus based on morphology and phylogeny analysis of ITS and LSU. Only F. uranophilus is accepted in this genus, with only the asexual morph known, isolated from a uranium mine in northern Australia (Vázquez-Campos et al. 2014). Fodinomyces is characterized by greenish glaucous to black, surface flat or with a raised center, either cracked, cerebriform or papillate colonies, septate, branched, colorless to slightly brownish or greenish hyphae, and polymorphic conidiophores and conidia (Vázquez-Campos et al. 2014). Based on the phylogenetic analysis of ITS, F. uranophilus is a sister [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 333, Foliopollenites (Fossil fungi)   Foliopollenites Sierotin. Citation when using this data: Saxena RK & Hyde KD. 2024 (in prep) – Fungalpedia, Fossil Fungi.  Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank. GenBank, Fig. 1 Classification: Fossil Fungi, Incertae sedis, Amerosporae. Sierotin (1861) described the monotypic fossil genus, Foliopollenites, from the Early Jurassic (201–174 mya) sediments of Germany. Foliopollenites includes fossil fungal spores shaped like a tapered leaf and surface covered with numerous spines of a little over 1 μm long. Spore wall is two layered, a little more than 1 μm thick, surface chagrinate. Size 27 × 21 μm. Potonié (1966) quoted a letter from Sierotin that “possibly this is a microfossil that can be assigned elsewhere” (than in the flowering plants). After the original publication of the genus (Sierotin 1861), two more species were allocated [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 184, Foveodiporites (Fossil Fungi)   Foveodiporites Varma & Rawat emend. Kalgutkar & Janson. Citation when using this data: Saxena RK & Hyde KD. (2024) in prep – Fungalpedia, Fossil Fungi.  Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1 Classification: Amerosporae, Fossil Fungi. The monotypic fossil genus, Foveodiporites, was described by Varma & Rawat (1963) based on specimens from the Early-Middle Eocene (ca. 56–38 mya), Late Eocene-Oligocene (ca. 38–23 mya), and Early Miocene (ca. 23–16 mya) sediments of western and eastern India, including oil exploration areas in West Bengal and Assam, India. The short diagnosis of this genus, included diporate pollen grains with foveolate exine (Varma & Rawat 1963). Although originally described as pollen, these forms are now generally recognized as fungal spores. Consequently, Kalgutkar & Jansonius (2000) emended the generic diagnosis as follows: Monocellate diporate fungal spores of mostly medium size (ca [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 482, Fragiliporia    Fragiliporia Y.C. Dai, B.K. Cui & C.L. Zhao Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Macrofungi. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1  Classification: Fragiliporiaceae, Polyporales, Incertae sedis, Agaricomycetes, Agaricomycotina, Basidiomycota, Fungi. Fragiliporia, a genus of poroid wood-inhabiting fungi typified by Fragiliporia fragilis, which was found in China and placed in Fragiliporiaceae, a new family in Polyporales. Combined ITS, LSU, mtSSU, TEF1, and RPB2 sequences established a monophyletic clade of Fragiliporia fragilis in Polyporales. The genus is characterized by resupinate basidiocarps with very soft tubes when fresh, which become brittle when dry (becoming almost powdery when bruised), a monomitic hyphal system with thick-walled generative hyphae, clamp connections, and frequently H-, W-, or Y-shaped hyphae branching from the clamp connections (Zaho et al. 2015). This genus is monotypic. Type species: Fragiliporia fragilis Y.C. Dai, B.K. Cui & C.L. Zhao Other [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 420, Franwilsia   Franwilsia 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. Franwilsia was introduced by Kondratyuk et al. (2014) and typified with Franwilsia bastowii based on morphology and single gene phylogeny analysis of ITS, LSU, and SSU. Currently, four Franwilsia species (F. bastowii, F. kilcundaensis, F. renatae and F. skottsbergii) are accepted in this genus. They have been isolated from trees and lichens in Australian, Chile, South African and Victoria (Kondratyuk et al. 2009, 2014, 2018). Franwilsia is mainly characterized by whitish to gray or dark gray, cortical layer palisade plectenchymatous, continuous to areolate thallus, zeorine or lecanorine apothecia, subhymenium, lower portion of hymenium, basal portion of true [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 233, Frondicola   Frondicola K.D. Hyde. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1 Citation when using this entry: Li et al. 2024 (in prep) – Fungalpedia, Xylariomycetidae.  Classification: Hyponectriaceae, Xylariales, Xylariomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi. Frondicola was established by Hyde (1992), based on morphology. The type species, F. tunitricuspis was found on the decaying fronds of Nypa fruticans (Arecaceae) in the intertidal region of the South China Sea (Brunei). Frondicola has dark ascomata with central ostiolar dots, immersed beneath a clypeus with variable stromatic development, septate paraphyses, tapering towards the apices, 8-spored, cylindrical asci, short pedunculate, with J-, apical ring, uniseriate, hyaline, ellipsoidal ascospores, and surrounded by a mucilaginous sheath (Hyde 1992).  The presence of paraphyses attached to asci excludes this genus from Diaporthaceae, while most Phyllachoraceae are parasitic and distinguishable by their soft clypeus and more delicate asci (Hyde 1992). It [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 463, Fulvocentrum   Fulvocentrum E.B.G. Jones & Abdel-Wahab Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Extreme-tolerant fungi. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1  Classification: Juncigenaceae, Incertae sedis, Hypocreomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi. Based on phylogenies of SSU and LSU rDNA sequences using maximum parsimony and maximum likelihood analyses, Fulvocentrum (Juncigenaceae, Torpedosporales) was proposed to accommodate Swampomyces aegyptiacus and S. clavatispora by Jones et al. (2014), and named F. aegyptiaca (type species) and F. clavatisporium, respectively. Fulvocentrum aegyptiaca and F. clavatisporium have been introduced as marine fungi from the Red Sea mangroves in Egypt (Abdel-Wahab et al. 2001). Abdel-Wahab et al. (2019) introduced another marine fungus, F. rubrum, collected from the Red Sea mangroves in Saudi Arabia. Currently, this genus comprises only three species of the Index Fungorum [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 93 Fusarium   Fusarium Link Citation when using this entry: Gomdola et al., in prep – Fungalpedia, forest pathogenic fungi. Mycosphere. Index Fungorum, MycoBank, Facesoffungi, GenBank, Fig 1 Fusarium (Gibberella) was established and described by Link (1809) based on morphological characters, depicted by its conspicuous banana or canoe-shaped conidia. Fusarium roseum was designated as the type species. In 1821, the nomenclature of Fusarium was sanctioned by Fries, followed by the first monograph (Appel and Wollenweber 1910). Subsequently, many studies employing multiple approaches to revise the genus and delineate its species were carried out (Wollenweber 1935; Booth 1971; Crous et al. 2021; Yilmaz et al. 2021; Wang et al. 2022). Fusarium belongs to Nectriaceae (Hypocreales, Hypocreomycetidae, Sordariomycetes) (Maharachchikumbura et al. 2016; Hyde et al. 2020; Wijayawardene et al. 2020, 2022; Index Fungorum 2023). To date, 1742 and 433 species epithets are listed in Index Fungorum and Species [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 118 Fusasporis   Fusasporis J. Lovy, R.P.E. Yanong, J.M. Stilwell, T.B. Waltzek, J.P. Shelley, D.B. Pouder, J.C. Wolf & A.C. Camus Citation when using this entry: Selçuk et al., in prep – Genera and higher taxa introduced in 2023. Mycosphere. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1 This genus is monotypic, which is the causative agent of tetra disseminated microsporidiosis, a new disease in ornamental fish of cardinal tetra and black tetra. The non-xenoma-forming microsporidium occurred diffusely in most internal organs and the gills, thus referring to the condition as tetra disseminated microsporidiosis. Based on combined phylogenetic and ultrastructural characteristics, the genus  was proposed by Lovy et al. (2021), with F. stethaprioni as the type species. In microscopic preparations, spores were uniform measuring 3.9 ± 0.33 μm (range = 3.2–3.7 μm) x [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 276, Fuscoannellis   Fuscoannellis Sand.-Den., Jagielski, Jin Yu & Gené Citation when using this entry: Perera et al. 2024 (in prep) – Fungalpedia, genera described in 2016. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1 Classification: Microascaceae, Microascales, Hypocreomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi Jagielski et al. (2016) described the monotypic genus Fuscoannellis, which is typified by scopulariopsis-like taxon Scopulariopsis carbonaria. Fuscoannellis species occur on unidentified pyrenomycetes, dead hardwood, and soil (Jagielski et al. 2016; Woudenberg et al. 2017). The genus is characterized by moderately spreading colonies that are greenish grey, dark grey to black, and velvety to funiculose. The conidiophores are either unbranched or branched. Unbranched conidiophores terminally bear a compact group of 2–10 conidiogenous cells. Branched conidiophores are more frequent, with several stages of branching, each branch terminally swelling and bearing a compact group [...]