Malacaria
Malacaria Syd., Annls mycol. 28(1/2): 69 (1930).
Index Fungorum number: IF 2983; Facesoffungi number: FoF 00221, 7 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2022), no molecular data available.
Fungicolous associated with Irenina glabra (Meliolaceae); comprising branched and colored, superficial mycelium, on leaves of Coffea robusta, pantropical. Sexual morph: Ascomata superficial, solitary, globose-subglobose, pale brown to orange brown, soft-textured, with a membranous wall, centrally ostiolate, darkened and collapsing when dry. Peridium composed of 3–5-layers of pale orange cells of textura angularis. Hamathecium with numerous filiform, septate, unbranched, hyaline pseudoparaphyses. Asci 8-spored, bitunicate, oblong subclavate, rounded at apex, obtuse at base. Ascospores fasciculate, elongate-fusiform, slightly curved, 3– (−4)-septate, slightly constricted at septa, pale brown, smooth-walled, apically subacute, continuous with basal filiform or thread-like, hyaline appendage. Asexual morph: Unknown.
Type species: Malacaria meliolicola Syd.
Notes: Malacaria has pale smoke-grey ascospores and unbranched septate pseudoparaphyses. Boonmee et al. (2014) excluded Malacaria from Tubeufiaceae and transferred it to Dothideomycetes, genera incertae sedis based on morphological study.
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