Nawawia – Facesoffungi number: FoF 13069

Nawawia Marvanová, Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. 75(2): 227 (1980)

MycoBank number: MB 9081; Index Fungorum number: IF 9081; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13069; 5 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 1 species with sequence data.

Type species – Nawawia filiformis (Nawawi) Marvanová

Notes – Nawawia species occur on dead plant parts including stems, wood and leaves in freshwater habitats (Hyde et al. 1996, Goh et al. 2014, Peng et al. 2016, Yang et al. 2018a). Yang et al. (2018a) has recollected and provided sequence data for the generic type species, Nawawia filiformis. Their phylogenetic analysis confirmed the placement of Nawawia within Chaetosphaeriaceae. Nawawia malaysiana was the only Nawawia species with sequence data (Crous et al. 2009). However, Yang et al. (2018a) observed that N. malaysiana is unrelated with Nawawia, and introduced new genus Neonawawia, to accommodate N. malaysiana, Chaetosphaeriales genera incertae sedis. Nawawia is characterised by brown, macronematous conidiophores, monophialidic or sometimes with annellidic conidiogenous cells and turbinate- tetrahedral to obpyramidal conidia with the blunt corners at the distal end with a distinct hair-like appendage at each end (Hyde et al. 1996, Peng et al. 2016, Yang et al. 2018a).

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