Cosmospora

Cosmospora
Cosmospora stilbellae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
Class: Sordariomycetes
Subclass: Hypocreomycetidae
Order: Hypocreales
Family: Nectriaceae
Genus: Cosmospora
Rabenh. 1862
Type species
Cosmospora coccinea
Rabenh. 1862
Species

See text.

Cosmospora is a genus of ascomycete fungi in the family Nectriaceae.[1][2] The genus, as circumscribed by Rossman et al. (1998), included all the nectrioid species with small, reddish, non-ornamented sexual fruiting bodies that collapse laterally when dry. [1] However, the genus was shown to be polyphyletic, [3] and the majority of species were re-classified into revived or recently established genera that are monophyletic.[3][4] Cosmospora sensu Rossman housed members of the following genera: Chaetopsina, Cylindrocladiella, Fusicolla, Macroconia, Mariannaea, Microcera, Pseudocosmospora, Stylonectria, and Volutella.[2] Cosmospora was restricted to species having acremonium-like asexual morphs that grow on polypores and xylariaceous fungi.[3]

The name Cosmospora comes from Greek kosmos + spora, meaning ornamented spores.

Species

Cosmospora

  • Cosmospora coccinea
  • Cosmospora arxii
  • Cosmospora berkeleyana
  • Cosmospora butyri
  • Cosmospora cymosa
  • Cosmospora khandalensis
  • Cosmospora lavitskiae
  • Cosmospora viliuscula
  • Cosmospora viridescens

Chaetopsina

  • Chaetopsina fulva
  • Chaetopsina penicillata
  • Chaetopsina polyblastia

Cylindrocladiella

  • Cylindrocladiella microcylindrica

Dialonectria

  • Dialonectria episphaeria

Fusicolla

  • Fusicolla matuoi

Macroconia

  • Macroconia leptosphaeriae
  • Macroconia cupularis
  • Macroconia gigas
  • Macroconia papilionacearum

Mariannaea

  • Mariannaea catenulatae

Microcera

  • Microcera coccophila
  • Microcera diploa
  • Microcera larvarum

Pseudocosmospora

  • Pseudocosmospora joca
  • Pseudocosmospora metepisphaeria
  • Pseudocosmospora pseudepisphaeria
  • Pseudocosmospora triqua
  • Pseudocosmospora vilior

Stylonectria

  • Stylonectria purtonii
  • Stylonectria wegeliniana

Volutella

  • Volutella consors
  • Volutella citrinella

Incertae sedis

  • Cosmospora biasolettiana
  • Cosmospora chlorina
  • Cosmospora damingshanica
  • Cosmospora digitalicola
  • Cosmospora diminuta
  • Cosmospora dingleyae
  • Cosmospora effusa
  • Cosmospora geastroides
  • Cosmospora glabra
  • Cosmospora henanensis
  • Cosmospora hispanica
  • Cosmospora japonica
  • Cosmospora jucundula
  • Cosmospora kurdica
  • Cosmospora lasiodiplodiae
  • Cosmospora macrochaetopsinae
  • Cosmospora marelliana
  • Cosmospora meliopsicola
  • Cosmospora nothepisphaeria
  • Cosmospora nummulariae
  • Cosmospora obscura
  • Cosmospora peponum
  • Cosmospora pseudoflavoviridis
  • Cosmospora purpureocolla
  • Cosmospora rickii
  • Cosmospora rubrisetosa
  • Cosmospora sansevieriae
  • Cosmospora stegonsporii
  • Cosmospora stilbosporae
  • Cosmospora thujana
  • Cosmospora tungurahuana

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Rossman, Amy Y.; Samuels, G.J.; Rogerson, C.T.; Lowen, R. (1999). "Genera of Bionectriaceae, Hypocreaceae and Nectriaceae (Hypocreales, Ascomycetes)". Studies in Mycology 42 (1): 1–248. doi:10.5598/imafungus.2013.04.01.05. PMC 3719205. PMID 23898411.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Lombard, L; van der Merwe, N.A.; Groenewald, J.Z.; Crous, P.W. (2015). "Generic concepts in Nectriaceae". Studies in Mycology 80: 189–245.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Gräfenhan, T.; Schroers, H.-J.; Nirenberg, H.I.; Seifert, K.A. (2011). "An overview of the taxonomy, phylogeny, and typification of nectriaceous fungi in Cosmospora, Acremonium, Fusarium, Stilbella, and Volutella". Studies in Mycology 68: 79–113. doi:10.3114/sim.2011.68.04.
  4. Herrera, Cesar S.; Rossman, Amy Y.; Samuels, G.J.; Chaverri, P. (2013). "Pseudocosmospora, a new genus to accommodate Cosmospora vilior and related species". Mycologia 105: 1287–1305.

External links

Cosmospora in Index Fungorum.

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