Conioscyphales is an order of freshwater and terrestrial fungi within the division Ascomycota. It is in the subclass Savoryellomycetidae and the class Sordariomycetes and the subdivision of Pezizomycotina.[2][3][4]

Conioscyphales
Scientific classification
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Conioscyphales

Réblová & Seifert, Persoonia 37: 63, 2015[1]
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Réblová & Seifert, Persoonia 37: 63, 2015[1]

It only contains the monotypic family Conioscyphaceae and the monotypic genus Conioscypha (which has 18 species).[5]

It was formerly in subclass Hypocreomycetidae O.E. Erikss. & Winka 1997,[6] until 2017, when it was placed in subclass Savoryellomycetidae Hongsanan et al.[7] Although still located within class Sordariomycetes.[8][9][3]

The Conioscypha clade, based on molecular data, was considered as Ascomycota incertae sedis with Conioscypha and Conioscyphascus considered congeneric (Réblová and Seifert, 2004,[10][11] Zelski et al., 2015 [12]) with Conioscypha accepted as the recommend name under the one name protocol (Réblová et al. 2016a).[13]

In 2016, phylogenetic analyses of DNA sequences from nuclear ribosomal and protein-coding loci support the placement of several perithecial ascomycetes and dematiaceous hyphomycetes from freshwater and terrestrial environments in two monophyletic clades closely related to the Savoryellales.[13][14] In the analysis, clade 45 represents the order Conioscyphales, which was established by Réblová et al. (2016a),[13] with a single family Conioscyphaceae. They also introduced two new species, Conioscypha aquatica and Conioscypha submersa.[2] It is a sister clade to orders Pleurotheciales and Savoryellales.[13]

Description edit

Conioscypha (the sole genus in the Conioscyphales) is generally characterised by aseptate, dark brown conidia and a unique mode of blastic conidiogenesis, when conidia are born in cyathiform (in the form of a cup, a little widened at the top) to doliiform (shaped like a barrel or cask) blastic conidiogenous cells surrounded by hyaline (transparent), cup-like collarettes with a multilamellar (having (or affecting) multiple lamellae) structure (Shearer & Motta 1973).[15][16]

Distribution edit

It has a cosmopolitan distribution across the globe. They have been found in South America, Australia and New Zealand,[6] as well as parts of North America, Europe and Africa.[17]

References edit

  1. ^ a b Réblová, M.; Seifert, K.A.; Fournier, J.; Štěpánek, V. (2016). "Newly recognised lineages of perithecial ascomycetes: the new orders Conioscyphales and Pleurotheciales". Persoonia - Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi. 37: 57-81.
  2. ^ a b Luo, Zong-Long; Hyde, Kevin D.; Liu, Jian-Kui (Jack); Maharachchikumbura, Sajeewa S. N.; Jeewon, Rajesh; Bao, Dan-Feng; Bhat, Darbhe Jayarama; Lin, Chuan-Gen; Li, Wen-Li; Yang, Jing; Liu, Ning-Guo; Lu, Yong-Zhong; Jayawardena, Ruvishika S.; Li, Jun-Fu; Su, Hong-Yan (2019). "Freshwater Sordariomycetes". Fungal Diversity. 99: 451–660.
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  8. ^ National Astronomical Observatory of Japan Handbook Of Scientific Tables (2022), p. 787, at Google Books
  9. ^ Tedersoo, Leho; Sanchez-Ramırez, Santiago; Köljalg, Urmas; Bahram, Mohammad; Döring, Markus; Schigel, Dmitry; May, Tom; Ryberg, Martin; Abarenkov, Kessy (May 2018). "High-level classification of the Fungi and a tool for evolutionary ecological analyses". Fungal Diversity. 90 (1). doi:10.1007/s13225-018-0401-0. hdl:10138/238983.
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  12. ^ Zelski, Steven E.; Raja, Huzefa A.; Miller, Andrew N.; Shearer, Carol A. (May 2015). "Conioscypha peruviana' sp. nov., its phylogenetic placement based on 28S rRNA gene, and a report of Conioscypha gracilis comb. nov. from Peru". Mycoscience. 56 (3): 319–325. doi:10.1016/j.myc.2014.09.002.
  13. ^ a b c d Réblová, Martina; Seifert, K.A.; Fournier, J.; Štěánek, V. (2015). "Newly recognised lineages of perithecial ascomycetes: the new orders Conioscyphales and Pleurotheciales". Persoonia. 37: 57–81.
  14. ^ Boonyuen, Nattawut; Charuwan, Chuaseeharonnachai; Suetrong, Satinee; Sri-indrasutdhi, Veera; Sivichai, Somsak; Gareth Jones, E.B.; Pang, Ka-Lai (2011). "Savoryellales (Hypocreomycetidae, Sordariomycetes): a novel lineage of aquatic ascomycetes inferred from multiple-gene phylogenies of the genera Ascotaiwania, Ascothailandia, and Savoryella". Mycologia. 103 (6): 1351–1371. doi:10.3852/11-102. PMID 21642338. S2CID 207626885.
  15. ^ Shearer, C.A.; Motta, J.J. (1973). "Ultrastructure and conidio-genesis in Conioscypha (Hyphomycetes)". Canadian Journal of Botany. 51: 1747–1751.
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