Pleosporales » Tetraplosphaeriaceae

Shrungabeeja

Shrungabeeja V.G. Rao & K.A. Reddy

Index Fungorum number: IF 9919; Facesoffungi number: FoF 06671

 

Saprobic on dead branch, culm or submerged wood. Sexual morph: Colonies effuse, blackish brown. Mycelium superficial or immersed. Conidiophores macronematous, mononematous, cylindrical, erect, straight or flexuous, unbranched, septate, pale brown to deep brown, smooth. Conidiogenous cells monoblastic, determinate or percurrently proliferative, pale brown to brown, smooth. Conidia acrogenous, subglobose or turbinate, aseptate, with appendages (Zhang et al. 2009). Asexual morph: Undetermined.

 

Type species: Shrungabeeja vadirajensis V.G. Rao & K.A. Reddy

 

Notes: Shrungabeeja is characterized by macronematous conidiophores, monoblastic, determinate or percurrent conidiogenous cells and subglobose or turbinate conidia with appendages (Zhang et al. 2009). Ariyawansa et al. (2015) confirmed Shrungabeeja in Tetraplosphaeriaceae based on molecular data of S. longiappendiculata Sommai et al. The type species S. vadirajensis was initially collected from India (Rao and Reddy 1981), later found from China (Zhang et al. 2009). The sequence data of S. vadirajensis was lacking in previous studies (Rao and Reddy 1981; Zhang et al. 2009; Ariyawansa et al. 2015). We describe another reference specimen of S. vadirajensis with molecular data. Shrungabeeja species are often recorded from terrestrial habitats (Zhang et al. 2009; Ariyawansa et al. 2015; Kirschner et al. 2017), we report one new species and one new habitat and geographical record from freshwater. The morphology of Shrungabeeja species are very similar and thus sequence data are of crucial importance to separate them. (Notes from Dong et al. 2020)

 

List of freshwater Shrungabeeja species

Shrungabeeja aquatica W. Dong, G.N. Wang & H. Zhang

Freshwater distribution: Thailand (Dong et al. 2020)

Shrungabeeja vadirajensis V.G. Rao & K.A. Reddy, Indian J. Bot. 4(1): 113 (1981)

Freshwater distribution: Thailand (Dong et al. 2020)

 

Key to freshwater Shrungabeeja species

1. Conidiophores with obvious percurrent proliferations..................... S. aquatica

1. Not as above.......................................................................... S. vadirajensis

 

References

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Dong W, Wang B, Hyde KD, McKenzie EHC, Raja HA, Tanaka K, Abdel-Wahab MA, Abdel-Aziz FA, Doilom M, Phookamsak R, Hongsanan S, Wanasinghe DN, Yu X-D, Wang G-N, Yang H, Yang J, Thambugala KM, Tian Q, Luo Z-L, Yang J-B, Miller AN, Fournier J, Boonmee S, Hu D-M, Nalumpang S, Zhang H (2020) Freshwater Dothideomycetes. Fungal Divers 105:319–575. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-020-00463-5

Kirschner R, Villarreal RVS, Hofmann TA (2017) A new species of Shrungabeeja (Tetraplosphaeriaceae) and new records of saprobic dematiaceous hyphomycetes on Poaceae from the high mountains of Panama. Sydowia 69:153–160. https://doi.org/10.12905/0380.sydowia69-2017-0153

Rao VG, Reddy KA (1981) Two new Hyphomycetes. Indian J Bot 4:108–114

Zhang K, Ma LG, Zhang XG (2009) New species and records of Shrungabeeja from southern China. Mycologia 101:573–578. https://doi.org/10.3852/09-006

 

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