Laburnicola
Laburnicola Wanas., Camporesi, E.B.G. Jones & K.D. Hyde, in Wanasinghe et al., Fungal Biology 120 (11): 1360 (2016).
Index Fungorum number: IF 551955; Facesoffungi number: FoF 01919, 4 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2022), 4 species with molecular data.
Saprobic on stems and twigs of herbaceous and woody plants in terrestrial habitats. Sexual morph: Ascomata immersed to semi-erumpent, solitary, scattered, broadly oblong, globose to subglobose, dark brown to black, ostiolate. Ostiole, wide, pale brown to brown, smooth, filled with hyaline to light brown cells. Peridium wider at apex and thinner at base, composed of several layers of lightly pigmented to dark brown to black, cells of textura angularis, with cells lighter towards inside, darker and fusing with host tissues at outside. Hamathecium comprising numerous, filamentous, branched, septate, pseudoparaphyses. Asci 8-spored, bitunicate, fissitunicate, cylindric-clavate, long pedicellate, thick-walled at the apex, with a minute ocular chamber. Ascospores overlapping 1–2-seriate, cell above central septum widest, hyaline when young, becoming dark brown at maturity, ellipsoidal to fusoid, asymmetrical, muriform, constricted at septa, rounded at ends, guttulate, with rugged surface, with or without a visible perispore. Asexual morph: Unknown (adapted from Wanasinghe et al. 2016).
Type species: Laburnicola muriformis Wanas., Camporesi, E.B.G. Jones & K.D. Hyde
Notes: Laburnicola is similar to other genera such as Austropleospora, Deniquelata, Kalmusia, Montagnula and Paraconiothyrium in having immersed ascomata and cylindrical to cylindric-clavate asci with a long pedicel, but it differs in having relatively large ascospores, with 6–8 transverse septa and 1–2 longitudinal septa. Laburnicola is morphologically and phylogenetically a distinct and well-defined genus in Didymosphaeriaceae. Molecular markers available for Laburnicola are ITS, LSU, SSU, BTUB, RPB2 and TEF-1.
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