Genus

Herpotrichia

Species

nypicola

Author

K. D. Hyde & Alias, Mycological Research 103 (11): 1412 (1999)

Class

Dothideomycetes, Subclass Pleosporomycetidae

Order

Pleosporales

Family

Melanommataceae

Synonymy:

Description

Herpotrichia Fuckel, Fungi Rhenani Exsiccati Cent. XXII 22: Fung. Rhen. no 2171 (1868)

Type species:

Herpotrichia rubi Fuckel, Fungi Rhenani Exsiccati Cent. XXII 22: Fung. Rhen. no 2171 (1868)

Marine species:

Herpotrichia nypicola K. D. Hyde & Alias, Mycological Research 103 (11): 1412 (1999)

Index Fungorum Number: 460762 Faceoffunfi Number:N/A

Saprobic, sexual morph: Ascomata 350-425 µm diam., 510-630 µm high, superficial, globose, ostiolate, short papillate, black, mostly clustered. Papilla 230-280 µm diameter. Peridium 45-95 µm wide, comprising two strata, an inner stratum of hyaline thin-walled globose cells, and an outer layer of brown thick-walled angular cells. Pseudoparaphyses 2-3 µm wide, filiform, numerous, septate, anastomosing above the asci, embedded in a gelatinous matrix. Asci 135-180¬17 x 5-25 µm, 8-spored, cylindric-clavate, pedicellate, bitunicate, fissitunicate, with an ocular chamber. Ascospores 31-42 x 7.5 x 12.5 µm, 2-seriate, fusiform, initially 1-septate, becoming 3-septate when mature, strongly constricted at the central septum, basal parts slightly longer and narrower than apical part, hyaline, becoming pale brown when mature, and dark brown following release from the ascomata, with apical cellular appendages. Asexual morph: Undetermined.

Description based on Hyde et al. (1999)

Key references:

Hyde KD, Goh TK, Lu BS, Alias SA (1999). Eleven new intertidal fungi from Nypa fruticans. Mycological Research. 103(11): 1409–1422.

Jones EBG, Suetrong S, Sakayaroj J, Bahkali AH, Abdel–Wahab MA, Boekhout T, Pang KL (2015). Classification of marine Ascomycota, Basidiomycota, Blastocladiomycota and Chytridiomycota. Fungal Diversity 73: 1–72.

Schmit JP, Shearer CA (2003). A checklist of mangrove–associated fungi, their geographical distribution and known host plants. Mycotaxon 55: 423–477.

Wijayawardene DNN, McKenzie EHC, Hyde KD (2012). Towards incorporating anamorphic fungi in a natural classification – checklist and notes for 2011. Mycosphere 3: 157–228.

Wijayawardene DNN, Hyde KD, Rajeshkumar KC, Hawksworth DL et al. (2017). Notes for genera: Ascomycota. Fungal Diversity 86: 1–594.

Type & Location:

Other Specimens:

Substratum:

On intertidal petiole base of brackish water palm Nypa fruticans.

Habitat:

Distribution:

Malaysia.

Pertinent Literature:

Description based on Hyde et al. (1999)

Comments:

NOTES: Herpotrichia nypicola appears to be known only from the original collection on Nypa fruticans collected at Kuala Selangor mangrove, Malaysia (Schmit & Shearer 2003). There are no cultures and it needs to be recollected, isolated and sequenced to confirm its placement in Herpotrichia. The genus comprises circa 101 species all terrestrial with the exception of H. nypicola (Wijayawardene et al. (2017). In Jones et al. (2015) this species was paced in the Lophiostomataceae. However, Wijayawardene et al. (2017) show it groups in the Melanommataceae, although the type species has not been sequenced (Wijayawardene et al. 2012).

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