Kamalomyces
Kamalomyces R.K. Verma, N. Sharma & Soni, Forest Fungi of Central India: 196 (2008).
Index Fungorum number: IF 512509; Facesoffungi number: FoF 06817, 6 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2022), 3 species with molecular data.
Saprobic on dead bamboo. Sexual morph: Ascomata forming on a subiculum of crowded black mycelium, superficial, clustered to solitary, globose to subglobose, stalked. Peridium comprising 3–4 layers of darkened cells of textura angularis, dull at margin. Hamathecium cellular, filiform, branched pseudoparaphyses, embedded in a gelatinous matrix. Asci 8-spored, bitunicate, thick-walled, saccate-clavate, with an ocular chamber, pedicellate. Ascospores fusiform to clavate, slightly tapering toward the rounded ends, trans-septate with crowded septa, straight or slightly curved, upper part broad, hyaline. Asexual morph: Unknown (adapted from Boonmee et al. 2011).
Type species: Kamalomyces indicus R.K. Verma, N. Sharma & Soni
Notes: Kamalomyces is characterised by clustered to solitary, globose to subglobose ascomata, saccate-clavate asci and fusiform to clavate, hyaline ascospores. Kamalomyces is unique and differs from other genera in Tubeufiaceae in having crowded septa in the ascospores. Kamalomyces is morphologically and phylogenetically a distinct genus in Tubeufiaceae. Molecular markers available for Kamalomyces include ITS, LSU, SSU, RPB2 and TEF-1.
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