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Fungalpedia – Note 277, Fuscosporella   Fuscosporella Jing Yang, Bhat & 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: Fuscosporellaceae, Fuscosporellales, Hypocreomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi Yang et al. (2016) introduced the hyphomycetous genus Fuscosporella, with F. pyriformis as the type, based on the LSU-SSU-rpb2 phylogeny. The genus is characterized by scattered black sporodochial colonies on natural substrates. The mycelium is partly immersed and partly superficial, composed of septate hyaline hyphae. Macronematous and mononematous conidiophores are hyaline or colourless, branched and smooth-walled. Conidiogenous cells are monoblastic, holoblastic, integrated, terminal, globose, subglobose, ellipsoidal, clavate, and hyaline. Conidia are acrogenous, obovate to obpyriform, with a septum near the base, brown to dark brown and smooth-walled. The basal cells are trapeziform, triangular, [...]

  Fungalpedia – Note 334, Fusidiporosporonites (Fossil fungi)   Fusidiporosporonites Z.C. Song. Citation when using this data: Saxena RK & Hyde KD. 2024 (in prep) – Fungalpedia, Fossil Fungi.  Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1 Classification: Fungi, Fossil Ascomycota, Incertae sedis, Amerosporae. The monotypic fossil genus Fusidiporosporonites was described by Song et al. (1989) from the Shahejie Formation (Late Eocene-Middle Oligocene, 38–20 mya) of Shenxian County of Shandong Province, China. This genus includes one-celled spores that are narrowly fusiform in outline and tapered to form a short tube at each terminal end. The spores had two pores situated at the tips of the short tubes. Pores are simple and unstructured, Spore wall is moderately thick, variously ornamented, but commonly thin and weak. According to Song et al. (1989), the ornamentation and shape of the type species are similar to those of Lacrimasporonites minutaestriatus P. [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 148 Fusiformispora   Fusiformispora Phukhams. & K.D. Hyde Citation when using this entry: Shah et al. (in prep) – Fungalpedia, new genera in 2020. Mycosphere Classification: Amniculicolaceae, Pleosporales, Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank Figs 1, 2. The monotypic Fusiformispora was introduced by Phukhamsakda et al. (2020). It was isolated as a saprobe from a decaying branch of Clematis fulvicoma found in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand. Its sexual morph is characterized by immersed, scattered or sparsely distributed ascomata. It has a false covering that appears as black or brown, leather-like, globular spots. It contains centrally located ostioles that bear brownish papillae. The peridium contains several layers; the inner layers translucent, cellular of textura angularis. The hamanthecium are closely packed, branched, and filamentous with transverse septa. Fusiformispora possesses bitunicate or fissitunicate asci, having eight spores with thick walls. Asci [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 340, Geotrichites (Fossil fungi)   Geotrichites Stubblef. et al. 1985  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, Ascomycota, Saccharomycotina, Saccharomycetes, Saccharomycetidae, Saccharomycetales. Stubblefield et al. (1985) described the monotypic fossil genus Geotrichites from the Late Oligocene or Early Miocene (28.5–16 mya) sediments of Dominican Republic. Geotrichites includes aerial, erect or decumbent septate hyphae, and sometimes branching dichotomously. The conidiophores are micronematous. Conidia are holoarthric, aseptate, produced by schizolytic disarticulation, and variable in size, oblong, or truncate with obtuse ends. According to Stubblefield et al. (1985), Geotrichites conforms to the extant genus Geotrichum Link ex Pers. in most aspects, although it is impossible to determine whether the mycelium is dry or slimy in the fossilized state.  Type species: Geotrichites glaesarius Stubblef. C.E. Mill., [...]

  Fungalpedia – Note 312, Globobotrys   Globobotrys 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) introduced this monotypic genus based on Stachybotrys sansevieriicola (as Globobotrys sansevieriicola), which clustered distantly from the Stachybotrys s.str. clade in the phylogenetic analysis of cmdA, ITS, rpb2, and tub2 sequences. Globobotrys produce macronematous and mononematous conidiophores that occur in solitary or in groups. They are erect, mostly unbranched, 1(–2)-septate, and hyaline, with thin and smooth walls. Conidiogenous cells occur in whorls of 3–8, and the apices of conidiophores are phialidic, subcylindrical to clavate to widely reniform, hyaline, and pale brown. [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 466, Globulisebacina   Globulisebacina Oberw., Garnica & K. Riess Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Macrofungi. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1  Classification: Sebacinaceae, Sebacinales, Incertae sedis, Agaricomycetes, Agaricomycotina, Basidiomycota, Fungi. Based on the morphological and molecular discrepancies, Oberwinkler et al. (2014) found that Efibulobasidium rolleyi (= Exidia rolleyi) lacked the Chaetospermum conidial stage and was phylogenetically not closely related to the Chaetospermum clade, then transfer E. rolleyi into a new monotypic genus, Globulisebacina (Sebacinaceae), G. rolleyi as the type species. Efibulobasidium is considered a synonym for Chaetospermum (Oberwinkler et al. 2014). In 2017, the second species, G. chenii, was described from Taiwan Province (China) based on its placement in a molecular phylogeny of partial LSU rDNA sequences, and the morphology also conforms to the morphological [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 200, Gloiodon    Gloiodon P. Karst.  Citation if using this entry: Bera et al. 2024 (in prep) – Fungalpedia, Basidiomycota 1.  Index Fungorum, MycoBank, Facesoffungi, GenBank, Fig. 1 Bondarzewiaceae, Russulales, Agaricomycetes, Basidiomycota, Fungi Gloiodon belongs to Bondarzewiaceae and was initially documented by the Finnish mycologist Karsten (1879). Originally,  Gloiodon was introduced to encompass three wood-inhabiting species exhibiting hydnoid hymenium, Hydnum strigosum Sw.:Fr., H. hirtum Fr. and H. pudorinum  Fr. (Karsten 1879, Desjardin & Ryvarden 2003). Later, Gloiodon, was confined to include solely Hydnum strigosum,, currently known as Gloiodon strigosus (Sw.) P. Karst. (Karsten 1879, Desjardin & Ryvarden 2003). Gloiodon strigosus was considered the type species of this genus by many mycologists over time (Banker 1902, 1910, Miller 1933, Donk 1956). This white rot-causing genus is characterized by annual, pileate, or effuse-reflexed basidiomata with its smooth to strigose surface texture (Desjardin & Ryvarden 2003). The basidiomata [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 423, Glyphopsis   Glyphopsis Aptroot  Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomata. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1 Classification: Incertae sedis, Arthoniales, Arthoniomycetidae, Arthoniomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi Glyphopsis was first introduced by Aptroot (2014) to the type species Glyphopsis aurantiodisca from New Caledonia. This new genus was identified using morphological and thin-layer chromatography (TLC), and no molecular studies were conducted (Aptroot 2014). Because this genus is difficult to classify into any known lichen genus, it is included in a different genus within Arthoniales (Aptroot 2014). The species was identified on the bark of trees in scrub forests and had characteristic bright orange discs in nearly pure white thalli. Upon closer examination, the thallus was crustose, cracked, not corticate, dull, with hyaline crystals (often falling out leaving [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 532, Golubkovia    Golubkovia S.Y. Kondr., Kärnefelt, Elix, A. Thell & Hur Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Rock-inhabiting fungi. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1  Classification: Teloschistaceae, Teloschistales, Lecanoromycetidae, Lecanoromycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi Based on phylogenies of mutil-gene (ITS, LSU, and mtSSU) sequence analyses, Kondratyuk et al. (2014) proposed Golubkovia as a monotypic genus within the subfamily Xanthorioideae in Teloschistaceae and Teloschistales in Lecanoromycetes with the type species Golubkovia trachyphylla. In contrast, previous morphological analysis have shown that it is polyphyletic. Initially, this species was described as Placodium elegans var. trachyphyllum, which is widely distributed on rocks in arid continental conditions of North America and Asia (Wetmore & Kärnefelt 1998, Kondratyuk et al. 2004, Elvebakk and Øvstedal 2009). Golubkovia is characterized by thallus lobate, yellow-orange, and cortical scleroplectenchymatous attached to the substrate by the thalline medulla. Apothecia primarily consists [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 147 Gomphidius    Gomphidius Fr.  Citation if using this entry: Bera et al. (in prep) – Fungalpedia, Basidiomycota 1. Mycosphere. Index Fungorum, MycoBank, Facesoffungi, GenBank, Fig. 1 Gomphidiaceae, Boletales, Agaricomycetes, Basidiomycota, Fungi The type genus of the family Gomphidiaceae was originally designated as Agaricus subgen. Gomphus Fr. but later, Fries (1825) raised it to the generic level and renamed it as Gomphidius. However, Fries did not initially designate a type species for the genus, but later, Gomphidius glutinosus (Schaeff.) Fr. was designated as the lectotype because it was the first species listed (Miller Jr 1971). The name "Gomphidius," is derived from the Greek word "gomphos," which means 'large wedge-shaped nail' or 'plug,' reflecting the shape of its basidiomata. As described by Singer (1949) and Miller Jr (1971), the genus is characterized by [...]