Ascomycota, genera » Ascomycota, incertae sedis

Brycekendrickia

Brycekendrickia Nag Raj, Can. J. Bot. 51(7): 1337 (1973)

Ascomycota, genera incertae sedis

 

Saprobic on fallen and decaying leaves of Bambusa sp. (Poaceae) and Sporobolus sp. (Poaceae). Sexual morph: undetermined. Asexual morph: Conidiomata pale brown to brown, stromatic, pycnidial, mostly epiphyllous, solitary to gregarious or often confluent, initially immersed, then becoming partly erumpent, globose to subglobose, unilocular or multilocular, glabrous, ostiolate. Ostiole single, funneled to flabellate, centrally located. Conidiomatal wall composed of pale brown to brown, thick-walled cells of textura angularis in the outer layers, and hyaline, thin-walled cells of textura prismatica in the inner layers. Conidiophores arising all around the cavity of the conidiomata, hyaline, branched, septate, invested in a thin, non-persistent mucus. Conidiogenous cells hyaline, enteroblastic, phialidic, subcylindrical to obclavate, discrete or integrated, smooth. Conidia hyaline, navicular, with an obtuse apex and a narrow truncate base, aseptate, slightly curved, eguttulate, smooth-walled, bearing hyaline, branched, filiform, flexuous appendage at both ends.

 

Type species: Brycekendrickia indica Nag Raj, Can. J. Bot. 51(7): 1337 (1973)

 

Notes: Brycekendrickia indica was collected on fallen and decaying leaves of Bambusa sp. in India (Nag Raj 1973). The genus remains monotypic and no molecular data is available.

Distribution: India.

 

References:

 

Li WJ, McKenZie EHC, Liu JK, Bhat DJ, Dai DQ, Caporesi E, Tian Q, Maharachcikumbura SSN, Luo ZL, Shang QJ, Zhang JF, Tangthirasunun N, Karunarathna SC, Xu JC, Hyde KD (2020) Taxonomy and phylogeny of hyaline-spored coelomycetes. Fungal Diversity 100: pages279–801.

 

 

 

About Coelomycetes

The website Coelomycetes.org provides an up-to-date classification and account of all genera of the class Coelomycetes.

Contact

  • Email:
  • [email protected]
  • Address:
    Mushroom Research Foundation, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand