Pinaceicola
Pinaceicola Crous, M. Shen & Y. Zhang ter, in Shen et al., Stud. Mycol. 96: 208 (2020).
Index Fungorum number: IF 831515; Facesoffungi number: FoF 12045, 1 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2022), 1 species with molecular data.
Mycelium consisting of branched, septate, pale to medium brown, smooth hyphae. Sexual morph: Unknown. Asexual morph: Conidiophores erect, pale to dark brown, subcylindrical, smooth, straight, reduced to conidiogenous cells, with one to several conidiogenous loci, subcylindrical to almost conical, widest at the base, tapering to a subtruncate or truncate apex; conidiogenous loci flat-tipped, somewhat darkened and thickened. Ramoconidia present, aseptate or septate. Conidia in branched or unbranched chains, pale to medium brown or pale olivaceous, smooth, narrowly ellipsoid, subcylindrical or fusoid, straight to slightly curved, 0–1-septate, mostly widest in the middle, tapering to subtruncate or truncate ends; hila somewhat darkened and thickened, not refractive (adapted from Crous et al. 2007, Koukol 2010).
Type species: Pinaceicola pini (Crous & de Hoog) Crous, M. Shen & Y. Zhang ter
Notes: Pinaceicola is characterised by erect, pale to dark brown, subcylindrical conidiophores, aseptate or septate ramoconidia, and pale to medium brown or pale olivaceous, smooth, narrowly ellipsoid conidia. Pinaceicola pini was previously described as Fusicladium pini from Czech Republic and the Netherlands and then collected by Shen et al. (2020) in Germany. In the phylogenetic analysis of Shen et al. (2020) based on ITS, LSU, TEF-1, BTUB and RPB2 sequences, Pinaceicola clusters in Sympoventuriaceae basal to Sterila, Fuscohilum and Neocoleroa. Pinaceicola is morphologically and phylogenetically a distinct and well-defined genus in Sympoventuriaceae. Molecular markers available for Pinaceicola are ITS, LSU, BTUB, RPB2 and TEF-1.
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