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Falciformispora lignatilis

Falciformispora lignatilis K.D. Hyde, Mycol. Res. 96(1): 27 (1992).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 358910; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11763, Fig. 1

Description: see Suetrong et al. (2009, 2011); Hyde et al. (2013); Devadatha and Sarma (2018).

Material considered: see Suetrong et al. (2009, 2011); Hyde et al. (2013); Devadatha and Sarma (2018).

Fig. 1 Falciformispora lignatilis (PUFD-61, isotype). a Ascomata superficial on the dead wood of Aegiceras corniculatum. b Vertical section through ascomata. c Peridium. d Cellular pseudoparaphyses. e, f Asci with ascospores. g–j Ascospores. Scale bars: b = 100 μm, c–j = 10 μm.

Importance and distribution

Falciformispora produces melanin which may be responsible for the causative agents of black-grain mycetoma (Lin et al. 2021). Falciformispora comprises five species. F. aquatica on decaying wood submerged in freshwater in Asia (Thailand), F. lignatilis on intertidal mangrove wood in North America (Mexico), F. senegalensis from a human in Africa (Senegal), F. tompkinsii from mycetoma of sapiens human in Africa (Mauritania) and F. uttaraditensis from submerged twigs in Asia (Thailand).

 

References

Devadatha B, Sarma VV. 2018 – Pontoporeia mangrovei sp. nov, a new marine fungus from an Indian mangrove along with a new geographical and host record of Falciformispora lignatilis. Current Research in Environmental & Applied Mycology (Journal of Fungal Biology) 8, 238–246.

Hyde KD, Jones EBG, Liu JK, Ariyawansa H et al. 2013 – Families of Dothideomycetes. Fungal Diversity 63, 1–313.

Lim W, Parel F, de Hoog S, Verbon A, van de Sande WWJ. 2021 – Melanin production in coelomycetous agents of black grain eumycetoma. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 14, 115(4):324-327. doi: 10.1093/trstmh/traa168.

Raja HA, Shearer CA. 2008 – Freshwater Ascomycetes: new and noteworthy species from aquatic habitats in Florida. Mycologia 100, 467–489.

Suetrong S, Hyde KD, Ahang Y, Bahkali AB, Jones EBG. 2011 – Trematosphaeriaceae fam. nov. (Dothideomycetes, Ascomycota). Cryptogamie Mycologie 32, 343–358.

Suetrong S, Schoch CL, Spatafora JW, Kohlmeyer J et al. 2009 – Molecular systematics of the marine Dothideomycetes. Studies in Mycology 64, 155–173.

 

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