Torula Pers., Ann. Bot. (Usteri) 15: 25 (1795).
MycoBank number: MB 10248; Index Fungorum number: IF 10248; Facesoffungi number: FoF 01740; 49 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020, this study), 17 species with molecular data (Li et al. 2020a, this study).
Type species – Torula herbarum (Pers.) Link.
≡ Monilia herbarum Pers., Syn. meth. fung. (Göttingen) 2: 693 (1801).
Notes – Persoon (1794) established Torula, with T. herbarum as the type. Species of this genus are only known by the hyphomycetous asexual morphs. Torula is characterized by terminal or lateral, monoblastic or polyblastic conidiogenous cells which have a basally thickened and heavily melanized wall, with the apex thin- walled and frequently collapsing and becoming coronate (Crane & Miller 2016, Li et al. 2017a). Crous et al. (2015a) introduced three new species and discussed the phylogenetic relationships of Torula. Su et al. (2016, 2018) and Li et al. (2017a, 2020a) re-investigated phylogenetic relationships of Torula based on DNA sequence analyses from nucleotides and protein genes. Currently, over 500 species epithets of this genus are listed in Index Fungorum (2024), but most species have been transferred to other genera, and less than 30 species have corresponding molecular data (Wang et al. 2023).
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