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Cophinforma

Cophinforma Doilom, Jian K. Liu & K.D. Hyde, in Liu et al., Fungal Diversity 57(1): 174 (2012).

 Index Fungorum number: IF 801315; Facesoffungi number: FoF 07624, 2 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2022), 2 species with molecular data.

Saprobic on recently fallen wood. Sexual morph: Ascostromata initially immersed under host epidermis, becoming semi-immersed to erumpent, breaking through cracks in bark, gregarious and fused, uniloculate, globose to subglobose, membraneous, with distinctly visible white contents when cut, ostiolate. Ostiole central, papillate, pale brown, relatively broad, periphysate. Peridium broader at the base, comprising several layers of relatively think-walled, dark brown to black-walled cells, arranged in a textura angularis. Pseudoparaphyses hyphae-like, numerous, embedded in a gelatinous matrix. Asci 8–spored, bitunicate, fissitunicate, clavate to cylindro-clavate, pedicellate, rounded at apex with an ocular chamber. Ascospores overlapping, uniseriate to biseriate, hyaline, aseptate, ellipsoidal to obovoid, slightly wide above the centre, smooth-walled. Asexual morph: Unknown (adapted from Liu et al. 2012).

Type species: Cophinforma eucalypti Doilom, J.K. Liu & K.D. Hyde

Notes: Cophinforma resembles Botryosphaeria but differs from it in having longer conidia. Cophinforma forms a distinct genus in Botryosphaeriaceae based on multigene phylogenetic inference. Molecular markers available for Cophinforma are ITS, LSU, SSU, BTUB, TEF-1 and RPB2.

 

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