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Fungalpedia - Note 171, Parablastocatena Parablastocatena Y.D. Zhang & X.G. Zhang 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 Parablastocatena was introduced by Zhang et al. (2012), based on morphology with P. tetracerae as the type species. This genus has effuse, hairy, brown to black colonies on the natural substrate, partly superficial mycelium immersed in the substratum, and synnematous, dark brown to black, determinate, and scattered conidiomata. The conidiophores are macronematous, unbranched, smooth, septate, brown to dark brown, and diverging laterally and terminally. The conidiogenous cells are holoblastic, terminal, integrated, cuneate, and curved with schizoanalytic conidial secession, while the conidia are holoblastic, acrogenous, develop in short acropetal chains or solitary, and euseptate. Parablastocatena shares morphological similarities with [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 280, Paracapsulospora   Paracapsulospora S. Konta & 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: Incertae sedis, Incertae sedis, Sordariomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi Hyde et al. (2016) introduced Paracapsulospora to accommodate a single species P. metroxyli, which is saprobic on dead Metroxylon in Thailand. Phylogenetic analysis of the LSU sequence data showed that Paracapsulospora related to both Magnaporthales and Amplistromatales. Due to limited sequence data availability, Paracapsulospora has not been assigned to an order and is left in Sordariomycetes incertae sedis (Hyde et al. 2016). The sexual morph of the genus is characterized by solitary, immersed, uniloculate, globose to subglobose ascomata surrounded by a dark brown layer of peridium cells. The peridium consists of black, thick-walled [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 545, Paracollema   Paracollema Otálora & Wedin Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Lichenicolous fungi. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1           Classification: Collemataceae, Peltigerales, Lecanoromycetidae, Lecanoromycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi Based on morphology and phylogenetic analysis of LSU, SSU, MCM7 and TUB, Paracollema was introduced by Otálora et al. (2014) as a monotypic genus within Lecanoraceae to accommodate the type species P. italicum, and P. almbornii which were basionymized from Collema (Otálora et al. 2014). Currently, only two species were accepted in Paracollema, which were collected from lichens in Croatia, France, Italy, Montenegro, Portugal, South Africa and Spain (Otálora et al. 2014). Paracollema is mainly characterized by foliose, small, homoiomerous, dark olive green to brownish thallus, small, entire and rounded lobes, surface smooth or slightly wrinkled, numerous, laminal, sessile apothecia, plane to convex, dark [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 281, Parafuscosporella   Parafuscosporella Jing Yang & 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 Parafuscosporella, with P. moniliformis as the type. The genus was accepted within Fuscosporellaceae based on LSU-SSU-rpb2 phylogenetic analysis (Yang et al. 2016). Parafuscosporella is characterized by effuse, scattered, sporodochial, erumpent, spherical, velvety, and black colonies on natural substrates. The mycelium is partly immersed and partly superficial and composed of septate, hyaline, and pale brown hyphae. Semi-macronematous and mononematous conidiophores arranged compactly. They are flexuous, simple or branched, hyaline, and smooth walled. Conidiophores are mostly moniliform with ellipsoidal, clavate, or globose to subglobose cells. Monoblastic conidiogenous [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 119 Parameliola   Parameliola Hongsanan, Peršoh & K.D. Hyde Citation when using this entry: Hongsanan et al., in prep – Fungalpedia, genera and higher taxa introduced in 2016. Mycosphere. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1. Parameliola was introduced as an incertae sedis genus in Pleosporales by Li et al. (2016) to accommodate two species, P. acaciae and P. dimocarpi, with the latter the type species. Parameliola species have a hyperparasitic habitat. The asexual morph is characterised by superficial, solitary, globose to subglobose conidiomata, attached to the superficial hyphae of M. thailandicum. The hyphae are branched, septate, darker at the septa, brown to dark brown, with 2-celled, mostly alternate or sometimes opposite hyphopodia. Conidiogenous cells are holoblastic, cylindrical, and hyaline. Conidia are ellipsoid to cylindrical, both ends broadly rounded, aseptate, hyaline, borne singly at the apex of [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 514, Paramicrosporidium   Paramicrosporidium D. Corsaro, Walochnik, D. Venditti, J. Steinm., K.-D. Müll. & R. Michel Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Protozoa. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1  Classification: Rozellidae, Rozellida, Incertae sedis, Rozellidea, Paramycia, Choanozoa, Protozoa. Corsaro et al. (2014) proposed a new name Paramicrosporidium for their tendonuclear parasites, which are microsporidia-like rozellids, based on the small subunit ribosomal RNA gene (SSU or 18S ribosomal DNA (rDNA)). The name is proposed to avoid further confusion and to respect name priority for the two distinct strains “Amoebosporidia Schneider 1884” and “Amoebosporidium polyphagum Bonome 1895,” which are one of the many synonyms of different species. Currently, Paramicrosporidium has two species, P. saccamoebae (type) and P. vannellae, which are identified based on gene sequences (18S rDNA) and natural amoebal [...]

  Fungalpedia – Note 320, Paramyrothecium   Paramyrothecium 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 Paramyrothecium for a group of myrothecium-like taxa produce 1–3-septate and thin-walled setae that encircle the sporodochia. In their phylogenetic inference based on cmdA, ITS, rpb2 and tub2 loci, Paramyrothecium species showed a distant relationship to Myrothecium s.str. (Lombard et al. 2016). The Paramyrothecium is characterized by scattered or gregarious sporodochial conidiomata, with or without a white setose fringe surrounding an olivaceous green to dark green slimy mass of conidia. Sporodochia are stromatic, superficial, cupulate, oval, or irregular in shape. The stroma of Paramyrothecium is poorly developed [...]

Fungalpedia – Note259, Paraphoma   Paraphoma Morgan-Jones & J.F. White. Citation when using this entry: Aumentado et al. 2024 (in prep) – Fungalpedia, plant pathogens.  Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1. Classification: Phaeosphaeriaceae, Pleosporales, Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi Paraphoma is a genus classified under Phaeosphaeriaceae, first introduced by Morgan-Jones et al. (1983) and typified by Paraphoma radicina (de Gruyter & Boerema 2002, de Gruyter et al. 2010). Paraphoma is characterised by solitary or aggregated pycnidial conidiomata that can be superficial or semi-immersed, brown to dark brown, globose to subglobose, with a short neck, uniloculate, and setose. Ostiole is singular and round. The pycnidium wall is thick and consists of an outer layer 2 cells thick, made of dark brown cells, and an inner layer, 4-5 cells thick, composed of subhyaline to pale brown pseudoparenchymatous cells. [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 104 Pararoussoella   Pararoussoella Wanas., E.B.G. Jones & K.D. Hyde Citation when using this entry: Phukhamsakda et al., in prep – Fungalpedia, marine fungi. Mycosphere. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank: Fig. 1 Pararoussoella was introduced as a monotypic genus, typified by Pararoussoella rosarum Wanas., E.B.G. Jones & K.D. Hyde (Wanasinghe et al. 2018). The genus is distinct from other roussoella-like taxa in having a minute, visible ostiole on the host surface, solitary, immersed, subglobose to ampulliform ascomata, papillate, cellular pseudoparaphyses, uniseriate, broad cylindrical asci, and dark brown, ellipsoidal, 1-septate ascospores, with longitudinal striations. The asexual morph   was reported based on P. juglandicola as a coelomycete, characterized by globose, brown, pycnidial conidiomata, phialidic conidiogenous cells and hyaline to brown, subcylindrical, aseptate, guttulate conidia (Crous et al. 2019). Pararoussoella was classified within Thyridariaceae (Dothideomycetes, Pleosporales) and with extensive [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 435, Parateratosphaeria   Parateratosphaeria 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 phylogenies of LSU and RPB2 alignment, Quaedvlieg et al. (2014) introduced Parateratosphaeria within Teratosphaeriaceae, Mycosphaerellales in Dothideomycetes with the type species Parateratosphaeria bellula and type species was initially described as Mycosphaerella bellula (Crous & Wingfield 1993). In addition, P. altensteinii, P. karinae, P. marasasii and P. persoonii were introduced in the same study as combination novel which transfer from Teratosphaeria (Quaedvlieg et al. 2014). Parateratosphaeria is named after its similarity to the Teratosphaeria, but can be indistinguishable by ascospores turn brown and verruculose during germination and some species also have a mucoid sheath and can be distinguished based on DNA sequence data (Quaedvlieg et al. 2014). The members [...]