Neoparodia
Neoparodia Petr. & Cif., Annls mycol. 30(3/4): 219 (1932).
Index Fungorum number: IF 3471; Facesoffungi number: FoF 07885, 1 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2022), no molecular data available.
Epiphytic or parasitic on living leaves. Sexual morph: Colonies large up to 2 mm diameter, superficial, subcircular, with outwardly radiating, dense, branched, septate, dark brown mycelia, solitary as black spots. Ascostromata epiphyllous or hypophyllous, superficial, crustose, with a subiculum, solitary, scattered, dark brown, multi-loculate, comprising subglobose locules, thickened at the base, lacking pseudoparaphyses. Peridium comprising 2 layers of hyaline to brown cells of textura angularis. Asci 8-spored, bitunicate, broadly clavate, oblong to obovoid, sessile or with short pedicel, apically thickened, with an acute to subacute ocular chamber. Ascospores overlapping 2-seriate, conglobate, broadly ellipsoid, ends rounded, each cell subglobose,uniseptate, reddish-brown to dark brown, separated by light brown regions, smooth-walled. Asexual morph: Unknown (adapted from Boonmee et al. 2017).
Type species: Neoparodia ekmanii Petr. & Cif.
Notes: Neoparodia is characterised by crustose, multi-loculate ascostromata, seated on a thickened subiculum, with radial mycelia, broadly clavate asci and having conglobate,uniseptate, dark pigmented ascospores, each cell subglobose with a light brown equatorial band. Neoparodia was placed in various families (Müller and Arx 1962; Kirk et al. 2008; Lumbsch and Huhndorf 2010; Hyde et al. 2013; Wijayawardene et al. 2014). Boonmee et al. (2017) placed Neoparodia in a new family Neoparodiaceae based on morphological study. Neoparodia is a distinct genus in Neoparodiaceae. Molecular data is needed to confirm the taxonomic placement of Neoparodia.
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