Calycina montana (W.Y. Zhuang & H.D. Zheng) Lestari & Hyde, comb. nov.
≡ Bisporella montana W.Y. Zhuang & H.D. Zheng, Zhuang, Zheng & Ren, Mycosystema 36(4): 407 (2017)
MycoBank number: MB 842853; Index Fungorum number: IF 842853; Facesoffungi number: FoF 10812;
Holotype: MFLU xxx
Saprobic on decayed woods. Sexual morph: Apothecia 1.1–1.6 × 0.6–1.4 mm, gregarious, arising singly or in cluster, amber color, stipitate. Stipe 0.6–1.2 x 0.2–0.4 mm in dried condition. Receptacle discoid, hyaline to pale amber color. Margin concolorous to receptacle. Disc concave. Ectal excipulum 55–68µm (x = 59.8 µm, n = 10) at lower flanks, composed of gelatinized thick-walled, hyaline cells of textura porrecta. Medullary excipulum 36–80 µm (x = 57.7 µm, n = 10) at lower flanks, distinctively separate from ectal excipulum, composed of thin-walled, hyaline cells of textura oblita, hypha with refractive guttules. Hymenium* 141–180 µm (x = 168.9 µm, n = 15), amber color. Paraphyses* 1.8–2.5 µm in diam. (x = 2.1 µm, n = 15) at the terminal, filiform, septate, branched at the 1/3 length from the base, guttules. Asci* 101– 118 × 4.7–6.3 µm (x = 108.6 × 5.5 µm, n = 15), † 73–99 x 4.4–6 (x = 93.2 × 5.4 µm, n = 10), 8-spored, unitunicate, cylindrical with subclavate at the top, rounded (in alive state) to conical apex (dead state), J+ (euamyloid, in MLZ with and without KOH treatment), long substipitate base, arising from croziers. Ascospores* 7.1–9.2 × 3.2– 4.2 µm (x = 8 × 3.6 µm, n = 20), ellipsoid, partially biseriate to uniseriate, hyaline, guttulates, rounded at both ends. Asexual morph: Hypomycetous, on the lower flank and receptacle of the apothecia’s surface. Conidiogenous cells 7–11 × 2.8–4.7 (x = 9.1 × 3.7 µm, n = 9) µm, phialidic, black to dark brown. Conidiophore 1.5–3.7 × 1.6–2.4 (x = 3 × 1.9, n = 5) µm, black to dark brown. Conidia 3.2–3.8 × 1.7–2 (x = 3.5 × 1.9 µm, n = 2) µm ellipsoid, aseptate, hyaline, smooth.
Material examined: Thailand, Doi Inthanon, Chomthong district, Chiang Mai Province, 20 October 2021, Anis S. Lestari, KMP3 21 (MFLU 22-xxxx, holotype), KMP3 41 (MFLU xxxx)
GenBank numbers:—KMP3 21: ITS–ON156524, LSU–ON156523
Notes:—In current study, the type strain Bisporella montana (HMAS 275566) and our specimen is combined under Calycina montana comb. nov. The type strain (HMAS 275566) was previously discovered in mountainous area in China as a saprobe on woody substrate (Zhuang et al. 2017). The characters of both specimens especially the pale color of apothecia and gelatinized textura porrecta of ectal excipullum fit the generic concept of Calycina (Baral 1994). Other character which further confirm the combination is the calycina-like apical ring of which our collections and the type specimen shown remarkably clear
FIGURE 1. Calycina montana (MFLU xxx, holotype).a Rotten branch substrates covered with mosses. b-c Apothecia habit on the substrate. d Close-up of an apothecium sectioning. g Close-up of an apothecium at the margin. f. Phialide cells on lower flank surface and close up cells g-h. Conidiogenous cells bearing conidiospore i-j. A conidiogenous cell (j. Mounted in Congo red). Scale bars: b = 950 μm, c = 470 μm, d = 416 μm, e = 110 μm, f = 60 μm, g-j = 10 μm.
FIGURE 2. Calycina montana comb. nov. (MFLU xxx, holotype).a. Close up of excipulum cells b. Ectal excipulum cells (b. mounted in Congo Red). d Medullary excipulum cells d-e Filiform paraphyses with refractive guttules. f-g Asci (dead state, mounted in Congo red). h. Asci (alive state) i. Close up of crozier. j. Tip of the ascus (J+, in Melzer agent with KOH treatment). k-m. Ascospores (m. mounted in Congo red). Scale bars: a. 37 μm b-c = 21 μm, d-h = 14 μm, d = 416 μm, e = 110 μm, f-h = 17 μm, i. 9 μm, j-m 4 μm.