Castanediella Hern.-Restr., Crous & M.J. Wingf., Persoonia 34: 187 (2015)
MycoBank number: MB 811878; Index Fungorum number: IF 811878; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13016; 16 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 11 with sequence data.
Type species – Castanediella acaciae Crous, Hern.-Restr. & M.J. Wingf.
Notes – Castanediella was introduced by Crous et al. (2015c) and placed in Xylariales genera incertae sedis. The genus is characterized by a hyphomycetous asexual morph with branched or unbranched conidiophores, mono- to polyblastic conidiogenous cells and straight to slightly curved, 0–1-septate conidia. The species are commonly isolated from leaf litter, leaf spots and wood. Currently, the genus comprises 16 species (Crous et al. 2015c, 2016a, b, 2018c, Hernández- Restrepo et al. 2016b, 2017, Wanasinghe et al. 2018, Hyde et al. 2019a, Lin et al. 2019a). In this entry we illustrate Castanediella brevis (Fig. 55).
Figure 55 – Castanediella brevis (Material examined – THAILAND, Lampang, Amphoe Mueang Pan, Tambon Chae Son, on decaying leaves, 24 September 2016, Chuangen Lin, LCG 10-1, MFLU 18-1695, holotype). a Host material. b-e Conidiophores on the host surface, conidiophores, conidiogenous cells with conidia. f-i Conidia. Scale bars: b-d = 5 μm, e-i = 10 μm.
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