Pleosporales

Acrocalymmaceae

Acrocalymmaceae Crous & Trakun., IMA Fungus 5(2): 404 (2014).

Index Fungorum number: IF 810837; Facesoffungi number: FoF 08135, 7 species.

 

Pathogens, saprobes. Sexual morph: Ascomata globose, with central beak ostiole, ostiole lined with periphyses; inner layer giving rise to hyaline, cellular pseudoparaphyses, septate, anastomosing. Asci cylindrical, sessile in rosette, 8-spored, bitunicate. Ascospores 2–3-seriate, narrowly fusoid, straight or slightly curved, at the beginning hyaline, 1-septate, with a mucoid sheath, becoming transversely 3-septate after discharge, constricted or not, pale brown. Asexual morph: Coelomycetous. Conidiomata pycnidial, papillate or rostrate, globose, dark brown or black, ostiolate. Conidiophores reduced to conidiogenous cells or a supporting cell. Conidiogenous cells ampulliform to doliiform or cylindrical, hyaline, smooth, percurrently proliferating at apex. Conidia hyaline, but becoming pigmented with age, 0–3-septate, continuous, smooth-walled, with mucoid apical and basal appendages. (Notes from Hongsanan et al. 2020)

 

Type: Acrocalymma Alcorn & J.A.G. Irwin.

 

Notes: Trakunyingcharoen et al. (2014) introduced Acrocalymmaceae to accommodate Acrocalymma. Liu et al. (2017) accepted Acrocalymmaceae and provided additional evidence by using divergence times. The family comprises only one genus (Wijayawardene et al. 2017). (Notes from Hongsanan et al. 2020)

 

References

Hongsanan S, Hyde KD, Phookamsak R, et al (2020) Refined families of Dothideomycetes: Dothideomycetidae and Pleosporomycetidae. Mycosphere 11:1553–2107. https://doi.org/10.5943/MYCOSPHERE/11/1/13

Liu JK, Hyde KD, Jeewon R, et al (2017) Ranking higher taxa using divergence times: a case study in Dothideomycetes. Fungal Divers 84:75–99. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-017-0385-1

Trakunyingcharoen T, Lombard L, Groenewald JZ, et al (2014) Mycoparasitic species of Sphaerellopsis, and allied lichenicolous and other genera. IMA Fungus 5:391–414. https://doi.org/10.5598/imafungus.2014.05.02.05

Wijayawardene NN, Hyde KD, Rajeshkumar KC, et al (2017) Notes for genera: Ascomycota. Fungal Divers 86:1–594. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-017-0386-0

 

Recent Genus

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Neochlamydotubeufia
Neohelicomyces

Recent Species

Neohelicomyces submersus
Neohelicomyces hyalosporus
Neohelicomyces grandisporus