Arthrocatena Egidi & Selbmann, in Crous, Schumacher, Akulov, Thangavel, Hernández-Restrepo, Carnegie, Cheewangkoon, R; Wingfield, Summerell, Quaedvlieg, Coutinho, Roux, Wood, Giraldo & Groenewald, Fungal Systematics and Evolution 3: 126 (2019)
Index Fungorum number: IF 829384, MycoBank number: MB 829384, Facesoffungi number: FoF 11412
Synonym – Arthrocatena Egidi & Selbmann, Fungal Diversity 65: 159. 2014. Nom. inval., Art. 40.7 (Shenzhen).
Etymology – Named after dark, arthric conidia in chains.
Description – Colonies growing slowly, dark, velvety, compact; hyphae torulose to dark brown, branched, developing longitudinal and oblique septa producing arthroconidia by disarticulation. Conidia dark brown, thick-walled, sometimes with a median septum. Sexual Morph: unknown.
Type species – Arthrocatena tenebrosa Egidi & Selbmann.
Figure 1 – Two-gene phylogenetic tree of representative families of Capnodiales, resulting from a Bayesian analysis of the nucLSU, RPB2, ITS, BT2 sequence alignment. Bayesian probabilities of ≥ 95 % are provided above corresponding nodes and in a thicker line. Clades and groups are indicated with colored blocks. Strains isolated from rocks are indicated with red text and species described here for the first time are in bold. Arrows indicate related figures
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