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Ovicuculispora Etayo, Bull. Soc.

  • 1. W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lubicz 46, PL- 31 - 512 Kraków, Poland
  • 2. Navarro Villoslada 16, 3 º dcha, 31003 Pamplona, Navarra, Spain
  • 3. Department of Plant Taxonomy and Nature Conservation, Faculty of Biology, University of Gdańsk, Wita Stwosza 59, PL- 80 - 308 Gdańsk, Poland
  • 4. Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global (IICG-URJC), Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Tulipán s / n, 28933 Móstoles, Spain & Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica, Rey Juan Carlos University, Tulipán s / n, 28933 Móstoles, Madrid, Spain
  • 5. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Claudio Moyano 1, E- 28014 Madrid, Spain

Description

Ovicuculispora Etayo, Bull. Soc. linn. Provence 61: 110. 2010. MycoBank MB 565893.

Type species: Ovicuculispora parmeliae (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Etayo

Ascomata perithecioid, superficial, single to rarely in groups of 2–5, globose to subglobose at first, collapsing and becoming cupulate when dry, pinkish to orange, the lower part covered by frequently dense white mycelium. Ascomatal wall composed of 5–7 layers of radially compressed pseudoparenchymatous thick-walled cells, KOH–. Interascal filaments absent. Asci unitunicate, subcylindrical to clavate, with 1–2 smooth to ornamentated macrospores and 4–5 verruculous microspores. Ascospores two types, macrospores and microspores, 1-septate, ellipsoid, hyaline. Conidiomata unknown.

Notes: The genus Ovicuculispora is characterized by a unique feature in the order Hypocreales, the presence of two types of ascospores in the same ascus, i.e. macrospores and microspores. The genus comprises two species, Ovicuculispora macrospora and O. parmeliae (generic type).

Notes

Published as part of Darmostuk, V., Etayo, J., Rodriguez-Flakus, P., Kukwa, M., Pino-Bodas, R., Pérez-Ortega, S. & Flakus, A., 2025, A novel, exclusively lichen-inhabiting lineage of hypocrealean fungi revealed in the Sordariomycetes, pp. 47-91 in Persoonia 54 (1) on page 72, DOI: 10.3114/persoonia.2025.54.02, http://zenodo.org/record/17102417

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Etayo, Bull. Soc.
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Ascomycota
Order
Hypocreales
Family
Bionectriaceae
Genus
Ovicuculispora
Taxon rank
genus