Lonicericola
Lonicericola Phookamsak, Jayasiri & K.D. Hyde, in Phookamsak et al., Fungal Diversity: 10.1007/s13225-019-00421-w, [39] (2019).
Index Fungorum number: IF 556139; Facesoffungi number: FoF 04962, 1 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2022), 1 species with molecular data.
Saprobic on dead hanging branches of Lonicera maackii. Sexual morph: Ascomata black, scattered, solitary to gregarious, immersed under host epidermis, slightly raised, globose to subglobose, uniloculate, glabrous, ostiolate, papillate. Peridium of equal thickness, composed of several layers, of flattened to broad, brown to dark brown, pseudoparenchymatous cells, arranged in textura angularis to textura prismatica. Hamathecium composed of numerous, filamentous, septate, anastomosed pseudo paraphyses, embedded in a hyaline gelatinous matrix. Asci 8-spored, bitunicate, fissitunicate, broadly cylindrical to cylindric clavate, subsessile to short pedicellate, with furcate to obtuse pedicel, apically rounded, with ocular chamber. Ascospores overlapping 2–3-seriate, hyaline, fusiform to vermiform, with enlarged cell, septate, constricted at the septa, smooth-walled, surrounded by distinct mucilaginous sheath. Asexual morph: Unknown (adapted from Phookamsak et al. 2019).
Type species: Lonicericola hyaloseptispora Phookamsak, Jayasiri & K.D. Hyde
Notes: Lonicericola is characterised by black, scattered, solitary to gregarious ascomata, cylindrical to cylindric clavate asci, and 3-seriate, hyaline, fusiform to vermiform ascospores. Lonicericola resembles Aquastroma in having hyaline, fusiform to vermiform, multiseptateascospores, with an entire sheath (Liu et al. 2015, Tanaka et al. 2015). Lonicericola can be distinguished from Aquastroma based on the terrestrial lifestyle, ascomal shape, ascospore septation and phylogenetic analyses. Aquastroma occurs on submerged woody plant material in aquatic environments and is characterised by clavate asci, with a longer pedicel and 6–8-septate ascospores (Tanaka et al. 2015). Lonicericola is also similar to Multiseptospora in having globose to subglobose ascomata immersed in the host tissue but the latter has 10–11-septate ascospores and ascomata surrounded by brown to dark brown vegetative hyphae, absence of a papilla and have pore-like openings (Liu et al. 2015). Lonicericola has also been compared to Neoaquastroma which has a coelomycetous morph while an asexual morph has not been reported for Lonicericola (Phookamsak et al. 2019). Lonicericola also resembles Parabambusicola but the latter has hemispherical to conical ascomata, with a flattened base, and 5–6-septate ascospores and mostly occurs on bamboo and grasses (Tanaka et al. 2015, Phookamsak et al. 2019). Lonicericola is a distinct genus and closely related to Aquastroma, Multiseptospora, Neoaquastroma and Parabambusicola in Parabambusicolaceae. The ideal molecular markers to differentiate between species of Lonicericola is ITS and TEF1-a sequence data. Molecular markers available for Lonicericola are ITS, LSU, SSU and TEF-1.
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