Thyridiales R. Sugita & Kaz. Tanaka, ord. nov.
MycoBank number: MB 841916; Index Fungorum number: IF 841916; Faceoffungi number: FoF ;
Type family. Thyridiaceae J.Z. Yue & O.E. Erikss., Syst. Ascom. 6(2): 233 (1987).
Sexual morph. Stromata scattered to grouped. Ascomata perithecial, subglobose to ampulliform. Ostiolar neck cylindrical, periphysate. Paraphyses numerous, un- branched, cylindrical, hyaline. Asci unitunicate, cylindrical, with an apical annulus, pedicellate. Ascospores obovoid to ellipsoid, muriform, hyaline to brown.
Asexual morph. Coelomycetous asexual morph: Conidiomata pycnidial, globose to subglobose. Conidiogenous cells phialidic. Conidia ellipsoidal to obovoid, aseptate, hyaline. Hyphomycetous synasexual morph: Colonies effuse or sporodochial. Conidiophores micronematous, mononematous, simple or branched, hyaline, thin-walled. Conidiogenous cells phialidic. Conidia ellipsoidal to allantoid, aseptate, hyaline.
Notes. Thyridiaceae has been treated as incertae sedis in Sordariomycetes (Yue and Eriksson 1987). Members of Thyridiaceae differ from Myrmecridiales by having pycnidial conidiomata, becoming cup-shaped in the coelomycetous state and micronematous conidiophores with monophialidic conidiogenous cells in the hyphomycetous state. Myrmecridiales have brown thick-walled conidiophores with polyblastic conidiogenous cells (Crous et al. 2015a). Annulatascales have relatively massive refractive, well-developed, conspicuous apical annulus in asci (Wong et al. 1999; Campbell and Shearer 2004; Dong et al. 2021). In contrast, those of members of Thyridiaceae are compact and inconspicuous. Therefore, a new order, Thyridiales, is introduced for this lineage.
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