Neobambusicola
Neobambusicola Crous & M.J. Wingf., in Crous et al., Persoonia 33: 255 (2014).
Index Fungorum number: IF 810614; Facesoffungi number: FoF 06695, 1 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2022), 1 species with molecular data.
Saprobic or pathogenic on leaves. Sexual morph: Unknown. Asexual morph: Conidiomata separate or aggregated, erumpent, globose, dark brown, opening via central ostiole; wall of 3–6 layers of brown textura angularis. Conidiophores reduced to conidiogenous cells. Conidiogenous cells hyaline, smooth, subcylindrical to ampulliform, phialidic, proliferating percurrently at apex, or with prominent periclinal thickening. Conidia solitary, hyaline, smooth (becoming olivaceous with age), prominently guttulate, medianlyuniseptate, constricted at septum, fusoid-ellipsoid, apex bluntly subobtusely rounded, tapering to a distinctly truncate base, mostly straight, but at times slightly curved. Microconidial state occurring in same conidioma. Microconidiogenous cells hyaline, smooth, doliiform to subcylindrical, proliferating percurrently at apex. Microconidia solitary, hyaline, smooth, guttulate to granular, aseptate, subglobose to subcylindrical, apex obtusely rounded, base truncate (adapted from Crous et al. 2014).
Type species: Neobambusicola is characterised by separate or aggregated conidiomata, hyaline, smooth, subcylindrical to ampulliform conidiogenous cells, and solitary, hyaline, smooth conidia. Neobambusicola is similar to Bambusicola in having reduced conidiophores with percurrent proliferation, and conidia that turn pale brown at maturity (Dai et al. 2012, Hyde et al. 2013). Neobambusicola can be differentiated from Bambusicola in that it lacks pycnothyrial conidiomata, and is characterised by fusoid ellipsoid conidia while Bambusicola has pycnothyrial conidiomata and cylindrical conidia. Neobambusicola is morphologically and phylogenetically a distinct genus in Sulcatisporaceae. Molecular markers of Neobambusicola available in GenBank are ITS, LSU and TEF-1.
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