Dictyocheirospora M.J. D’souza, Boonmee & K.D. Hyde, Fungal Divers. 80: 465 (2016).
MycoBank number: MB 551580; Index Fungorum number: IF 551580; Facesoffungi number: FoF 01261; 21 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 11 species with molecular data.
Type species – Dictyocheirospora rotunda M.J. D’souza, Bhat & K.D. Hyde, Fungal Divers. 80: 465 (2016).
Notes – Dictyocheirospora was introduced by Boonmee et al. (2016) to accommodate species with dark sporodochial colonies that produce aeroaquatic cheiroid dictyospores, all species in this genus are saprobic. Based on morphological and phylogenetic analysis, Boonmee et al. (2016) introduced Dictyocheirospora, with D. rotunda as the type species. Dictyocheirospora is similar to Dictyosporium in having micronematous, mononematous conidiophores and solitary conidia consisting of several arms arising from a basal cell. But the difference between the two genera is that Dictyocheirospora has cheiroid, acomplanate conidia, and mostly with conidial arms closely gathered together at the apex (Boonmee et al. 2016, Wang et al. 2016, Hyde et al. 2017, Li et al. 2017, Yang et al. 2018a, Shen et al. 2022b). Currently, there are 29 epithets listed within Dictyocheirospora in Index Fungorum (2024), with 25 species have DNA sequence in the GenBank (Shu et al. 2024).
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