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Fungalpedia - Note 33 Neoflabelliforma   Neoflabelliforma D.J. Morris & M.A. Freeman Citation if using this entry: Fallahi et al. (2023) New genera in 2010-2011. Mycosphere (in prep) Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1. Neoflabelliforma with Neoflabelliforma aurantiae as the type species is an obligate microsporidian parasite associated with Tubifex tubifex (Annelida) and collected in Scotland (Morris and Freeman. 2010). Ultrastructural and phylogenetic analysis based on the ssrDNA sequence revealed similarities between the new microsporidian and Flabelliforma magnivora, but not with the type species Flabelliforma montana. Therefore, a new genus Neoflabelliforma was introduced, and Flabelliforma magnivora (Larsson et al. 1998) was reassigned as a new combination. Weng et al. (2023) reported a new species Neoflabelliforma dubium from the adipose tissue of Diaphanosoma dubium in China. In this microsporidian, multinucleate sporogonial plasmodial stages divide by plasmogamy. Sporophorous vesicles formed during sporogony, with a fragile interfacial envelope. Primordial exospores are associated with dense tubular structures [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 432, Neohortaea    Neohortaea Quaedvl. & Crous Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomata. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1  Classification: Teratosphaeriaceae, Mycosphaerellales, Dothideomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi. Neohortaea, a new genus, was introduced with Neohortaea acidophila by Quaedvlieg et al. (2014) based on phylogenetic ITS, LSU, and RPB2 analyses. Neohortaea acidophila is the type species in Neohortaea, which is a synonym for Hortaea acidophila isolated from lignite in Germany. Neohortaea is morphologically similar to Hortaea, except that the latter has prominent annellate conidiogenous loci and conidia that develop several septa, forming chlamydospores with age (de Hoog et al. 2000, Plemenitas et al. 2008, Quaedvlieg et al. 2014). Conidiogenous cells and conidia of Neohortaea have prominent characteristics, namely integration on hyphae, reduced to conidiogenous loci, with several minute percurrent proliferations [...]

  Fungalpedia – Note 319, Neomyrothecium   Neomyrothecium 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 Based on phylogenetic analyses of concatenated cmdA, ITS, rpb2, and tub2 loci, Lombard et al. (2016) proposed that Neomyrothecium accommodates a single lineage, N. humicola. Neomyrothecium humicola shares similar morphological characteristics with Paramyrothecium species but is phylogenetically distinct (Lombard et al. 2016). Neomyrothecium is a hyphomycete genus characterized by sporodochial conidiomata that are stromatic, superficial, scattered, and gregarious. Sporodochia are pulvinate, oval or irregular in shape and covered by olivaceous green to dark green slimy masses of conidia. However, they lacked white setose fringes. The stroma is weakly developed, hyaline, [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 519, Neopenidiella   Neopenidiella Quaedvl. & Crous Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomata.  Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1  Classification: Mycosphaerellaceae, Mycosphaerellales, Dothideomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi. Quaedvlieg et al. (2014) introduced Neopenidiella within Mycosphaerellaceae, Mycosphaerellales, Dothideomycetidae in Dothideomycetes with the type species Neopenidiella nectandrae. Neopenidiella is a monotypic genus characterized by straight, filiform, pluriseptate throughout, thin-walled, smooth, brown, darker below and paler above, apex penicillate, long conidiophores, apically truncated, conical, subdenticulate, slightly darkened-refractive, mostly unthickened conidiogenous, aseptate, barely or distinctly attenuated at the truncate base, with 2–3(–4) subdenticulate hila at the apex, subcylindrical, thin-walled, smooth to faintly verruculose ramoconidia, long acropetal chains, pale olivaceous to olivaceous-brown or brown, narrowly ellipsoid-ovoid, fusiform to cylindrical aseptate, smooth to faintly rough-walled, thin-walled conidia (Quaedvlieg et al. 2014). Currently, [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 234, Neophysalospora   Neophysalospora Crous & M.J. Wingf. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1 Citation when using this entry: Li et al. 2024 (in prep) – Fungalpedia, Xylariomycetidae.  Classification: Clypeophysalosporaceae, Amphisphaeriales, Xylariomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Ascomycota, Fungi Neophysalospora was established by Crous et al. (2014) based on morphology and phylogenetic analyses of combined ITS and LSU sequence data to accommodate N. eucalypti as the type species. It is an endophytic and plant pathogenic fungus associated with brown leaf spots of Corymbia henryi (Myrtaceae) in Mozambique. Additionally, it causes cutting rot in the nurseries of Eucalyptus grandis × camaldulensis (Myrtaceae) in South Africa (Crous et al. 2014). Neophysalospora has globose ascomata, which are solitary, brown, and immersed, with a central ostiole. Asci are cylindrical, stipitate, with an apical ring and fusoid-ellipsoid ascospores, with acutely rounded ends (Crous et al. 2014). The genus has [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 489, Neophysalospora    Neophysalospora Crous & M.J. Wingf. Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomata. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1  Classification: Amphisphaeriales, Clypeophysalosporaceae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi. A monotypic genus Neophysalospora was introduced to accommodate Neophysalospora eucalypti and the genus is presently affiliated within Clypeophysalosporaceae (Amphisphaeriales, Sordariomycetes) (Crous et al. 2014). This genus was reported on the leaves of Corymbia henryi (Myrtaceae) in Mozambique and showed endophytic and plant pathogenic lifestyles. Both sexual and asexual morphs have been reported. The sexual morph shows unitunicate asci with apical J+ rings, and the asexual morph is characterized by conidiophores lining the inner conidiomatal wall, which are straight to curved and hyaline to pale brown (Crous et al. 2014).  Type species: Neophysalospora eucalypti Crous & M.J. Wingf. [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 486, Neopyricularia   Neopyricularia Klaubauf, M.-H. Lebrun & Crous Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Fungal pathogens. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1  Classification: Pyriculariaceae, Magnaporthales, Sordariomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi. The genus Neopyricularia, which belongs to the family Pyriculariaceae, exhibits morphological similarities to the type genus Pyricularia. However, it is important to note that Neopyricularia comprises a separate lineage from the phylogenetic perspective, as demonstrated by Klaubauf et al. (2014). This plant pathogenic genus is typified by Neopyricularia commelinicola, and until now, only one species has been reported. The important characteristic features of Neopyricularia are sub-cylindrical, olivaceous, erect, smooth, sometimes branched, septate conidiophores with terminal to intercalary olivaceous conidiogenous cells and denticulate, slightly darkened conidiogenous loci, and pyriform to obclavate, 2-septate, subhyaline to pale brown [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 492, Neosphaerellopsis    Neosphaerellopsis Crous & Trakun. Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomata. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1  Classification: Phaeosphaeriaceae, Pleosporales, Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi. The monotypic genus Neosphaerellopsis was established to accommodate the type Neosphaerellopsis thailandica, which was isolated from rust sori on Bothriochloa bladhii from Thailand in its asexual morph (Trakunyingcharoen et al. 2014). Neosphaerellopsis mostly resembles Sphaerellopsis but differs in the ITS- and LSU-based phylogeny (Trakunyingcharoen et al. 2014). Neosphaerellopsis also resembles Tiarospora but, the latter has deeply immersed, stromatic pycnidia, percurrent proliferating conidiogenous cells, and broadly ellipsoidal conidia that turn brown at maturity (Nag Raj 1993). Neosphaerellopsis clustered between Parastagonospora and Sclerostagonospora in Phaeosphaeriaceae but, differs from both genera in having mucoid conidial appendages (Trakunyingcharoen et al. 2014).  Type species: Neosphaerellopsis thailandica Crous & Trakun. [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 433, Neotrimmatostroma   Neotrimmatostroma Quaedvl. & Crous Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomata. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi; MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1  Classification: Teratosphaeriaceae, Mycosphaerellales, Dothideomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi. Neotrimmatostroma is a new genus introduced by Quaedvlieg et al. (2014) to accommodate Neotrimmatostroma bifarium, N. excentricum, and N. excentricum (type species), based on phylogenetic analyses of combined ITS, LSU, TEF-1α, RPB2, ACT, Btub, and CAL. Neotrimmatostroma has both sexual and asexual morphs and can be found as foliicolous or plant pathogenic (Quaedvlieg et al. 2014). The sexual morph is characterized by fasciculate, bitunicate, paraphysate, 8-spored, obovoid to broadly ellipsoidal asci and tri- to multiseriate, fusoid-ellipsoidal with obtuse ends, smooth, 3-septate, thick-walled, guttulate, with persistent mucous sheath ascospores, and the asexual morph is characterized by branched at base, [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 265, Netothyrites (Fossil Fungi)   Netothyrites Misra et al.  Citation when using this data: Saxena RK & Hyde KD. 2024 (in prep) – Fungalpedia, Fossil Fungi.  Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1 Classification: Fungi Incertae sedis The fossil genus Netothyrites was instituted by Misra et al. (1996) from Palaeocene (66– 56 mya) sediments of the An-42-A well (1500–1505 m depth), Andaman Basin, India. This genus is characterized by pitcher-shaped sporocarps with distinct collar, hollow neck, and main body with a closed reticulated bottom, fly catcher’s net-like gross appearance. The proximal opening (possibly ostiole) is distinct and bordered with dark, multicellular cells, forming a distinct collar (rim) around the subcircular to oval proximal opening. The main body hangs down from the collar, with a distinct neck between them. The sidewalls of the neck and main [...]