Calcarisporiaceae Jing Z. Sun, X.Z. Liu & K.D. Hyde, Mycol Prog 16 (4): 435 (2017)
MycoBank number: MB 817660; Index Fungorum number: IF 817660; Facesoffungi number: FoF 02511; 8 species.
Fungicolous, parasitic, endophytic or saprobic on higher ascomycetes and basidiomycetes, and leaves and branches of trees. Sexual morph: Undetermined. Asexual morph: Conidiophores macronematous, mononematous, erect, unbranched or verticillate, branched hyaline, straight or flexuous. Conidiogenous cells holoblastic, polyblastic, discrete, subulate, hyaline. Conidia ovoid to ellipsoid, or acerose to narrowly obclavate, aseptate, hyaline, straight to curved (adapted from Sun et al. 2017).
Type genus – Calcarisporium Preuss
Notes – Multi-gene analysis revealed that Calcarisporium species form a monophyletic lineage which is distinct from other families in Hypocreales. This family is distinguished from other families by its verticillate conidiophores with a narrow apical part and monoblastic to polyblastic, sympodial and denticulate conidiogenous cells at the apex (Sun et al. 2017). Calcarisporium arbuscula is illustrated in the entry.
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