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Coniochaeta Cooke 1887
Authors/Creators
- 1. Institute of Fungus Resources, Department of Ecology / Guizhou Key laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Life Science, Guizhou University, Guiyang, 550025, Guizhou, China
- 2. Key Laboratory of Development and Utilization of Biological Resources in Colleges and Universities of Guizhou Province / Key Laboratory of Ecology and Management on Forest Fire in Higher Education institutions of Guizhou Province, Guizhou Education University, Guiyang, 550018, Guizhou, China
- 3. Center for Mycomedicine Research, Basic Medical School, Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guiyang, 550025, Guizhou, China
Description
Coniochaeta (Sacc.) Cooke
Notes.
The genus Coniochaeta was introduced based on C. ligniaria (Grev.) Massee as the type species (García et al. 2006; Silva et al. 2023). The sexual morph of Coniochaeta is characterized by superficial or semi-immersed ascomata, cylindrical, clavate, subglobose, or globose asci, and narrowly ellipsoid to fusoid, broadly ellipsoidal to globose ascospores (García et al. 2006; Silva et al. 2023). The asexual morph of Coniochaeta is characterized by phialides with very short lateral necks, periclinal wall thickening, and flaring collarettes (Gams 2000; Weber 2002; Silva et al. 2023). Meanwhile, the genus Coniochaeta has various shapes of conidia, such as ellipsoidal to cylindrical, ellipsoid, ellipsoidal, cylindrical or curved, and bacilliform to allantoid (Arnold et al. 2021; Kabtani et al. 2022; Silva et al. 2023; Crous et al. 2025). Presently, 134 species of Coniochaeta are recorded in Index Fungorum (2025) (published on the Internet at http://www.indexfungorum.org, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Retrieved 16 March 2026]).
Notes
Published as part of Wang, Hai-Yan, Qu, Hong-Qin, Zhao, Yu-Feng, Song, Ke-Yun, Zhang, Hai-Long, Wang, Yan-Ling, Dong, Chun-Bo, Zhang, Yan-Wei, Chen, Wan-Hao & Han, Yan-Feng, 2026, Three new species (Coniochaetales, Eremomycetales, Spiromycetales) isolated from rhizosphere soil of tea plant (Camellia sinensis) in Guizhou, China, pp. 1-25 in MycoKeys 134 on pages 1-25, DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.134.186271
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Cooke
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Ascomycota
- Order
- Coniochaetales
- Family
- Coniochaetaceae
- Genus
- Coniochaeta
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Coniochaeta Cooke, 1887 sec. Wang, Qu, Zhao, Song, Zhang, Wang, Dong, Zhang, Chen & Han, 2026
References
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- Silva RMF, Gonçalves CM, Oliveira TG, Oliveira RJ, Silva JM, Oliveira ML, Alves MV, Silva GA (2023) Coniochaeta monsterae, sp. nov., (Coniochaetaceae, Coniochaetales): a new endophytic fungal species from Brazil. Sydowia 75: 283.
- Gams W (2000) Phialophora and some similar morphologically little-differentiated anamorphs of divergent ascomycetes. Studies in Mycology 45: 187–199.
- Weber E (2002) The Lecythophora - Coniochaeta complex: I. Morphological studies on Lecythophora species isolated from Picea abies. Nova Hedwigia 74: 159–185.
- Arnold AE, Harrington AH, Huang YL, U'Ren JM, Massimo NC, Knight-Connoni V, Inderbitzin P (2021) Coniochaeta elegans sp. nov., Coniochaeta montana sp. nov. and Coniochaeta nivea sp. nov., three new species of endophytes with distinctive morphology and functional traits. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 71 (11): 34731078. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.005003
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