Neorhamphoria
Neorhamphoria Boonmee, Hüseyin & Selçuk, in Boonmee et al., Mycosphere 7(9): 1450 (2016).
Index Fungorum number: IF 552704; Facesoffungi number: FoF 02823, 1 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2022), 1 species with molecular data.
Saprobic on dead wood in terrestrial habitat. Sexual morph: Ascomata apothecia, cup shaped, superficial, solitary to grouped, black. Receptacle pulvinate, disc convex, disc and the margins are black. Exciple peridium consisting of thick-walled, pigmented, isodiametric cells. Hymenium upper part blackish brown and lower part is hyaline. Hamathecium comprising 2–3 µm wide, numerous, cylindrical, broad cellular pseudoparaphyses, anastomosed, constricted septate, hyaline, apical pigmented, exceeding asci in length, apices are glued together to develop epithecium. Asci 8-spored, bitunicate, saccate to broad-clavate, broadly rounded at apex, non-amyloid, with a short bifurcate pedicel or apedicellate. Ascospores overlapping 2–3-seriate, partially overlapping, obovoid or elliptic with broadly to narrow rounded ends, initially uniseptate at immature, becoming phragmosporous to muriform at maturity, 3-transversely septate, with 1–2-vertical septate, hyaline, smooth-walled. Asexual morph: Unknown (adapted from Boonmee et al. 2016).
Type species: Neorhamphoria garethjonesii Boonmee, E. Hüseyin & F. Selçuk
Notes: Neorhamphoria resembles other genera such as Murangium and Tryblidaria in having black apothecial ascomata, thin inner layer of bitunicate asci and muriform ascospores. Neorhamphoria differs from these genera in having hyaline muriform ascospores with 3-transverse septa and 1–2 vertical septa. Molecular markers available for Neorhamphoria are LSU, SSU and TEF-1.
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