Capnodiales

Cladosporiaceae

Cladosporiaceae Nann., Repert. mic. uomo: 404 (1934).

Index Fungorum number: IF 80600; Facesoffungi number: FoF 06966, 356 species.

Diverse habitats. Sexual morph: Ascomata immersed to superficial, scattered or gregarious, brown to black, globose to subglobose, uniloculate, with or without ostiolar necks. Ostiole necks, with numerous periphysoids. Peridium composed of several layers of brown, thickened cells of usually textura angularis. Hamathecium comprising hyaline, septate, subcylindrical pseudoparaphyses. Asci 8-spored, bitunicate, hyaline, smooth, sessile to subsessile, obovoid to ellipsoid or subcylindrical, with or without apical ring. Ascospores fasciculate, obovoid, guttulate, ellipsoid to fusiform, hyaline to pale brown, septate, smooth to slightly roughened, mucous sheath sometimes present. Asexual morph: Hyphomycetous. Colonies on natural substrate effuse, greyish brown to brown, velvety. Mycelium mostly immersed, composed of branched, septate, pale brown, smooth to minutely verruculose hypha. Conidiophores macronematous, mononematous, solitary, arising terminally and laterally from hyphae, erect, straight to slightly flexuous, cylindrical, oblong to filiform, sometimes geniculate, unbranched or branched. Conidiogenous cells mostly polyblastic, integrated, terminal and intercalary, often distinctly sympodially proliferating, filiform, cylindrical to oblong, conspicuous, subdenticulate to denticulate. Conidia catenate, in densely branched, acropetal chains, straight to slightly curved, subhyaline to brown, smooth or verruculose; terminal conidia globose, subglobose to obovoid, broadly rounded at the apex, intercalary conidia subglobose, broadly ellipsoid-ovoid, aseptate, with distal hila, often distinctly denticulate (photoplates of asexual can be seen in Schubert et al. 2007b, Bensch et al. 2010, 2012). (Adopted from Hongsanan et al. 2020).

Type – Cladosporium Link.

 

References:

Hongsanan S, Hyde KD, Phookamsak R, Wanasinghe DN, McKenzie EH, Sarma VV et al. 2020 – Refined families of Dothideomycetes: Dothideomycetidae and Pleosporomycetidae. Mycosphere 11, 1553–2107.

 

Recent Genus

Perennicordyceps
Pleurocordyceps
Purpureocillium

Recent Species

Ophiocordyceps musicaudata
Ophiocordyceps liangii
Ophiocordyceps fenggangensis