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Fungalpedia - Note 461, Psoronactis    Psoronactis Ertz & Tehler Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Lichenicolous fungi. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1  Classification: Roccellaceae, Arthoniales, Arthoniomycetidae, Arthoniomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi. Based on phylogenies of combined LSU and RPB2 sequences, Ertz et al. (2015) introduced Psoronactis as a monotypic genus within Roccellaceae and Arthoniales in Arthoniomycetes with the type species P. dilleniana. The species was initially described as Lecanactis dilleniana by Körber (1885), but the genus can differ from Lecanactis species by chemistry, with psoromic and 2′-O-demethylpsoromic acids in the thallus (Ertz et al. 2015). Psoronactis is characterized by thallus crustose, non-corticate, non-sorediate, apothecioid, rounded ascomata, sessile, black, with a persistent, dark brown excipulum, with individual hyphae hardly visible except in the external part, K+ olivaceous, carbonized hypothecium [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 362, Psychrophila     Psychrophila Psychrophila M.M. Wang & Xing Z. Liu Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, extreme-tolerant fungi. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1           Classification: Incertae sedis, Helotiales, Leotiomycetidae, Leotiomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi. Psychrophila was established with the type species Psychrophila antarctica, and its generic name is a cold-loving fungi group that is well adapted to low-temperature habitats (Wang et al. 2015). To date, Psychrophila accepted another three species (P. lagodekhiensis, P. lutea, and P. olivacea) and these species were found in preservative-treated wood and soil, rhizosphere of Hedera helix in China, Georgia and Sweden; also, from soil in Great Wall Station of Antarctic (Untereiner et al. 2019). Psychrophila has been morphologically described by having phialides, collarettes, vegetative hyphae, conidiophores that are reduced to conidiogenous cells, sometimes short, or much differentiated; wedge-shaped to campanulate and widely flaring collarettes, forming hyaline, pyriform [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 422, Pulchroboletus   Pulchroboletus Gelardi, Vizzini & Simonini Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Macrofungi. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1  Classification: Boletaceae, Boletales, Agaricomycetidae, Agaricomycetes, Agaricomycotina, Basidiomycota, Fungi. Alessioporus was introduced by Gelardi et al. (2014), based on morphological, macro-chemical reactions (25% NH4OH, 30% KOH, FeSO4), and molecular (ITS, LSU, tef-1 α) studies with Pulchroboletus roseoalbidus as a type species. Alessioporus is distinguished from the genus due to its pastel pink, cream-pinkish to whitish pink or rarely bloodred pileus surface, the smooth to densely punctuate stipe surface, also with a coarse reticulum (rarely); the pseudo-annulus is usually located in the upper or middle part of the stipe, the pinkish lilac context of the pileus, and distinct sequences (ITS, LSU, and tef-1α) (Gelardi et al. 2004). Farid et al. [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 122 Purpureocorticium   Purpureocorticium S.H. Wu Citation when using this entry: et al., in prep – Fungalpedia, genera and higher taxa of 2022. Mycosphere. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1. The corticioid genus Purpureocorticium was introduced by Wu et al. (2018) to accommodate Purpureocorticium microsporum (Agaricomycetes, Basidiomycota) based on morphological study and phylogenetic analyses of LSU and ef1-α. It was found on an angiosperm branch in mountainous Taiwan. Purpureocorticium is characterized by having a resupinate basidiocarp with smooth hymenial surface, turning purple in KOH, and becomes purplish after storage. The subiculum has a compact texture, nodose-septate generative hyphae, without cystidia, basidia are subclavate with a median constriction, or utriform, and basidiospores are ovate-ellipsoid, smooth and thin-walled, inamyloid and nondextrinoid (Wu et al. 2018). A detailed description for this species was given in Wu et al. [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 409, Pustulomyces   Pustulomyces D.Q. Dai, Bhat & K.D. Hyde Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1           Classification: Diaporthaceae, Diaporthales, Diaporthomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi. Based on morphology and phylogeny of LSU and TEF1-α, Pustulomyces was introduced by Dai et al. (2014) to accommodate the type species Pustulomyces bambusicola and placed it in Diaporthaceae. Pustulomyces was isolated as a saprobe from dead bamboo culms in Thailand (Dai et al. 2014). Currently, only one species of Pustulomyces is accepted, with only the asexual morph. Pustulomyces is characterized by acervular, immersed, pustule-like, acervular conidiomata with dark ostiolar necks; enteroblastic, cylindrical, slender, phialidic conidiogenous cells with a small collarette; and fusiform, straight to curved, aseptate, guttulate conidia (Dai et al. 2014). Pustulomyces is phylogenetically closely related to Phaeocytostroma and Stenocarpella spp.. However, Pustulomyces [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 479, Pycnopulvinus    Pycnopulvinus Toome & Aime Citation when using this data: Tibpromma et al. 2024 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Macrofungi. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1  Classification: Heterogastridiaceae, Heterogastridiales, Incertae sedis, Microbotryomycetes, Pucciniomycotina, Basidiomycota, Fungi.      Pycnopulvinus was proposed as a new genus with a single species, Pycnopulvinus aurantiacus (type species) (Aime & Toome 2014). The initial habitat was recorded on the palm leaves of a Neotropical Forest in Ecuador. The new genus was identified based on its morphological and molecular characteristics (based on the ITS and LSU regions). Pycnopulvinus aurantiacus has minute orange stilboid sporocarps with a swollen basal region and long tubular neck bearing a mucoid droplet of spores at the tip, which is characteristic when differentiating it from other fungal species, particularly Heterogastridium, which is closely related to Pycnopulvinus (Aime [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 552, Queenslandipenidiella   Queenslandipenidiella 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 ITS, LSU, RPB2, TEF-1α and TUB sequences, Quaedvlieg et al. (2014) introduced Queenslandipenidiella as a monotypic genus within Teratosphaeriaceae, Mycosphaerellales in Dothideomycetes with the type species Queenslandipenidiella kurandae. The type species of this genus initially placed in Penidiella, with Penidiella kuranda as the type species deal to penicillate conidiophores that produce brown conidia with inconspicuous hila (Crous et al. 2007a). Subsequently, Quaedvlieg et al. (2014) reported that Queenslandipenidiella can be distinguished from Penidiella s.str. by its well-defined penicillate conidiophores, with clear branching structure, which is less apparent in species of Penidiella s.str. (Crous et al. 2007b). Queenslandipenidiella is named after [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 123 Quixadomyces   Quixadomyces Cantillo & Gusmão Citation when using this entry: Norphanphoun et al., in prep – Fungalpedia, genera and higher taxa of 2022. Mycosphere. Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1. Based on analysis of combined ITS and LSU sequence data, Crous et al. (2018) introduced Quixadomyces to accommodate Q. cearensis Cantillo & Gusmão, a fungus that was collected from decaying bark in Brazil. However, they did not mention about development of internal structures. The taxonomic placement of Quixadomyces is in Parapyrenochaetaceae (Pleosporales, Dothideomycetes) (Crous et al. 2018). Wanasinghe et al. (2021) introduced Q. hongheensis Wanas. collected from dead twigs of Dodonaea viscosa in China. Quixadomyces hongheensis was introduced based on sequences of concatenated LSU, SSU, ITS, rpb2, ef1α and β-tubulin with strong statistical support (Wanasinghe et al. 2021). Quixadomyces is characterized by brown to dark brown pycnidia and is known only [...]

Fungalpedia - Note 73 Ramaria   Ramaria Fr. ex Bonord. Citation if using this entry: Bera et al. (2023) Basidiomycota. Mycosphere (in prep) Index Fungorum, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1 The genus Ramaria popularly known as “coral mushrooms” was introduced by Holmsköld (1790). Although many taxonomists have treated Ramaria as a segment of another genus Clavaria (Coker 1923, Doty 1944, Leathers 1955). The taxonomic placement of this genus was always debated until Donk (1933) elevated the name Ramaria to its current generic status based on Bonorden's (1851) usage of the name Ramaria (Corner 1950, 1970, Donk 1961, Peterson 1968, Marr & Stuntz 1973). Ramaria is currently classified under the family Gomphaceae (Gomphales, Hymenomycetes) as per Donk (1961), and Petersen (1988). Another school of thought considers the genus under the family Ramariaceae (Corner 1970, Hawksworth et al. 1995). The typical character of Ramaria is its [...]

Fungalpedia – Note 252, Ramasricellites (Fossil Fungi)   Ramasricellites Kalgutkar & Janson.  Citation when using this entry: Saxena RK & Hyde KD. 2024 (in prep) – Fungalpedia, Fossil Fungi.  Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1  Classification: Fossil Ascomycota, Incertae sedis. The monotypic fossil genus Ramasricellites was instituted by Kalgutkar & Jansonius (2000) to accommodate Multicellaesporites differentialis, originally described by Ramanujam & Srisailam (1980) from the Warkalli Beds (Miocene, 23–5 mya) of Palayangadi and Cheruvattur, Kannur District, Kerala, India. This genus includes inaperturate, tetracellate, ellipsoidal (25–35 × 7–8.5 μm) fungal spores, with central two cells broader (6.8 × 8.5 μm), thicker walled and more pigmented than the terminal cells. Terminal two cells thin-walled to hyaline (1.7 μm thick) with rounded ends (9 × 5.1 μm), tapering. Transverse septa (or septal bases) thick and dark, band-like (up to 2.5 μm thick) [...]