Zukaliopsis
Zukaliopsis Henn., Hedwigia 43: 367 (1904).
Index Fungorum number: IF 5882; Facesoffungi number: FoF 06554, 2 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2022), no molecular data available.
Parasitic on leaves. Sexual morph: Ascostromata superficial, scattered, solitary, coriaceous to sub-carbonaceous, semi-immersed to erumpent, black to brown, sub-globose, multi-loculate, locules arranged in the outer margin of the ascostromata, one ascus in each locule, ostiolate. Ostioles minute. Paraphyses absent. Cells of the ascostromata comprising dark brown pseudoparenchymatous textura angularis. Asci 8-spored, bitunicate, fissitunicate, ovoid, short pedicellate, narrowly pointed at the base, rounded at the apex with indistinct ocular chamber. Ascospores hyaline, oblong to cylindro-clavate, muriform, with 4–6-transverse septa, 0–1-longitudinal septum, slightly constricted at the septa, smooth-walled to veruculose, lacking a sheath. Asexual morph: Unknown (adapted from Dissanayake et al. 2014).
Type species: Zukaliopsis amazonica Henn.
Notes: Hennings (1904) accommodated the type species in Perisporiaceae. Höhnel (1909) proposed that Zukaliopsis is morphologically similar to Molleriella. Zukaliopsis was synonymized with Molleriella by Arx (1963) and proposed that this genus resembles a transition to Saccardinula Speg. (1885) over Molleriella. Zukaliopsis was placed in Myriangiaceae by Theissen and Sydow (1917). Dissanayake et al. (2014) observed that Zukaliopsis has one ascus in each locule and placed it in Myriangiaceae. New collections and sequence data are needed to clarify the familial position of this genus.
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