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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 516, Andamanomyces    Andamanomyces Hosag. Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomata. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1  Classification: Incertae sedis, Asterinales, Dothideomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi. Hosagoudar et al. (2014) introduced Andamanomyces as a monotypic genus within Asterinales, Dothideomycetidae in Dothideomycetes with the type species Andamanomyces fragariae. Andamanomyces characterized by brown, septate, appressoriate, ectophytic, branched mycelium, solitary but mostly in couplets, unicellular appressoria, ellipsoidal with central vertical suture formed by dissolving or splitting, oval thyriothecia, 8–spored, bitunicate, globose asci, oblong, uniseptate, conglobate, constricted at the septum ascospores. Andamanomyces can be distinguished by having elliptical thyriothecia with central vertical sutures with Asterolibertia and Cirsosia (Arnaud 1918). Only one species has been accepted, and this genus is the remaining monotypic genus. Type species: Andamanomyces fragariae Hosag. Other accepted species: This genus [...]

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 476, Annellosympodiella   Annellosympodiella Crous & Assefa  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. Annellosympodiella was introduced by Crous et al. (2014) based on morphological and molecular studies (ITS and LSU), with Annellosympodiella juniperi as the type species. The genus is named Annellosympodiella due to its morphological similarity to Annellosympodia and is characterized by conidiomata as sporodochial, erumpent, brown with brown subcylindrical cells; conidiophores are subcylindrical, brown, densely aggregated, verruculose to warty, rejuvenating percurrently, septate; conidiogenous cells are integrated, terminal, proliferating percurrently with irregular annellations, brown, verruculose, and long brown tubular collarettes; conidia are subcylindrical to narrowly obclavate, straight to curved, brown, verruculose to warty, guttulate, euseptate; hilum truncate, thickened, and slightly [...]

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 434, Apenidiella   Apenidiella 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. Based on previous descriptions of morphological character and phylogenetic analyses of the LSU and RPB2, Quaedvlieg et al. (2014) introduced a new genus Apenidiella with A. strumelloidea as the type species, which is isolated from a leaf of Carex sp. collected in stagnant water from the Sutka River in Russia (Crous et al. 2007, Quaedvlieg et al. 2014). Crous et al. (2019b) described Apenidiella antarctica, which is the second species of the genus Apenidiella. Apenidiella is similar to Penidiella, but can be distinct from conidiophores with a solitary conidiogenous cell that gives rise to a single set of [...]

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 = [...]