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Helicosporium Nees
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand & School of Food and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Guizhou Institute of Technology, Guiyang 550003, China & Guizhou Industry Polytechnic College, Guiyang 551400, China
- 2. School of Food and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Guizhou Institute of Technology, Guiyang 550003, China & Guizhou Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural-Sciences, Guiyang 550009, China
- 3. School of Food and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Guizhou Institute of Technology, Guiyang 550003, China
- 4. Engineering Research Center of the Utilization for Characteristic Bio-Pharmaceutical Resources in Southwest, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
- 5. Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand
Description
Helicosporium Nees, Syst. Pilze (Würzburg): 68 (1816) [1816–17]
Notes.
Helicosporium, one of the three earliest described helicosporous genera (Helicoma, Helicomyces and Helicosporium) (Link 1809; Nees 1817; Corda 1837), was established by Nees (1817) with H. vegetum as the type species. To date, 118 species are recorded in the Index Fungorum (2025). However, based on combined morphological and molecular evidence, only about 32 species are currently accepted in this genus (Lu et al. 2018 b; Xiao et al. 2023; Ma et al. 2024 b; Bai et al. 2025; Peng et al. 2025; Sun et al. 2025). Amongst these, sexual morphs have been confirmed for only five species: H. flavum, H. sexuale, H. vegetum, H. rubrum and H. multiseptatum (Boonmee et al. 2014, 2021; Brahmanage et al. 2017; Peng et al. 2025; Sun et al. 2025). Most species of Helicosporium are saprobes inhabiting freshwater and terrestrial environments, with a broad geographical distribution (Morgan-Jones and Goos 1992; Zhao et al. 2007; Lu et al. 2017 a, 2018 b, 2022; Dong et al. 2020; Boonmee et al. 2021; Hsieh et al. 2021; Xiao et al. 2023; Ma et al. 2024 b). The majority of Helicosporium species have been isolated from decaying wood of unidentified plant hosts, while H. multiseptatum as the saprobe and H. thailandicum as the pathogen obtained from Poaceae sp. and Elaeis sp. (Arecaceae), respectively (Sun et al. 2025). In this study, we introduce a new Helicosporium species which was isolated from medicinal plants.
Notes
Published as part of Zou, Shi-Ping, Xiao, Yuan-Pin, Tang, Qiu-Yuan, Chen, Yu-Bi, Lu, Yong-Zhong, Liu, Ning-Guo, Bao, Dan-Feng & Cheewangkoon, Ratchadawan, 2026, Two new saprobic species of Helicosporium and Dictyosporium and a new host record of Neohelicomyces guizhouensis isolated from Phellodendron amurense (Rutaceae, Tracheophyta) in China, pp. 47-71 in MycoKeys 127 on pages 47-71, DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.127.175758
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Nees
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Ascomycota
- Order
- Tubeufiales
- Family
- Tubeufiaceae
- Genus
- Helicosporium
- Taxon rank
- genus
References
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- Nees Von Esenbeck CDG (1817) System der Pilze und Schwämme; Wentworth Press, Würtzburg, Germany, 1–334. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.110007
- Corda ACJ (1837) Icones fungorum hucusque cognitorum, vol. 1. Calve, Prague.
- Index Fungorum (2025) Index Fungorum. https://www.speciesfungorum.org/
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