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Funbolia

Funbolia Crous & Seifert, in Crous et al., Persoonia 26: 115 (2011).

Index Fungorum number: IF 560161; Facesoffungi number: FoF 08075, 1 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2022), 1 species with molecular data.

Associated with bark of a living tree. Mycelium of pale brown to hyaline, branched hyphae, giving rise to conidiophores. Sexual morph: Unknown. Asexual morph: Conidiophores solitary, erect, straight to flexuous, cylindrical, unbranched, or branched below, brown, finely verruculose, multi-euseptate. Conidiogenous cells terminal and lateral, pale to medium brown, finely verruculose, subcylindrical to somewhat swollen, clavate to irregular; loci aggregated in a rachis, at times subdenticulate with minute collarette; scars thickened along the rim, erumpent, but not darkened nor refractive. Conidia dimorphic, medium brown, finely verruculose, ellipsoidal when uniseptate, becoming subcylindrical when multi­septate, apex obtusely rounded, tapering from basal septum to an obconically truncate hilum, not thickened, nor darkened (at times appearing to have a marginal frill), transversely eu­septate (adapted from Crous et al. 2011).

 Type species: Funbolia dimorpha Crous & Seifert

Notes: Funbolia is characterised by solitary, erect, straight to flexuous conidiophores, pale to medium brown, finely verruculose, subcylindrical to somewhat swollen conidiogenous cells and finely verruculose, ellipsoidaluniseptate conidia. Funbolia is similar to other genera such as Spadicoides and Neta. Funbolia differs from Spadicoides in having conidia that lack the darkened septa. Funbolia differs from Neta in lacking setae. Funbolia also resembles Thysanorea but differs in having dimorphic conidia. Funbolia is also similar to Catenulisubulispora but lacks dimorphic conidia and has beaked conidia. Funbolia is morphologically and phylogenetically a distinct genus in Eriomycetaceae. Molecular markers available for Funbolia are ITS and LSU.

 

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