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Based on material from Sweden and Denmark a new species of Maireina is described. It
produces tiny, pale yellow brown, cyphelloid basidiomata at the very base of Filipendula
ulmaria in grazed forest meadows. Phylogenetically it falls within the Niaceae clade
with sisterrelations to Cyphellopsis/Merismodes. It differs from M. maxima by habitat
and b...
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... The known bioluminescent mushrooms are distributed in tropical and temperate regions, where they grow on moist decaying wood or leaves [4]. confirmed in the Nia clade (=Cyphellopsidaceae) [54,55]. In the Mycobank and the Index Fungorum databases, the names Digitatispora Doguet, Flagelloscypha, Halocyphina, Lachnella, Maireina, Merismodes, Nia, Peyronelina P.J. Fisher, J. Webster & D.F. Kane, and Woldmaria are still classified in the family Niaceae. ...
... accessed on 1 May 2023) to retrieve similar sequences. Other sequences of cyphelloid basidiomycetes, including those generated by Bodensteiner et al. [45], Laessøe et al. [54], Baltazar et al. [48], Karasiński et al. [56], and Vizzini et al. [70], were downloaded and included in the dataset. Existing sequences of known bioluminescent fungi were also downloaded from GenBank to compose a final dataset that includes all known bioluminescent and cyphelloid lineages. ...
... Notes: After the very brief protologue, Knudsen and Vesterholt [61] included in their description of Merismodes include some morphological characteristics of the genera Maireina, Cyphellopsis, and Phaeocyphellopsis. In our emendation, we include additional distinctive morphological characteristics of the species recently described [52][53][54] and of Maireina based on Bodensteiner [57]. In all our analyses, the genus Maireina is resolved as paraphyletic, forming a well-supported monophyletic lineage with the sequences of Mersimodes included. ...
During nocturnal field expeditions in the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest, an unexpected bioluminescent fungus with reduced form was found. Based on morphological data, the taxon was first identified as belonging to the cyphelloid genus Maireina, but in our phylogenetic analyses, Maireina was recovered and confirmed as a paraphyletic group related to genera Merismodes and Cyphellopsis. Maireina filipendula, Ma. monacha, and Ma. subsphaerospora are herein transferred to Merismodes. Based upon morphological and molecular characters, the bioluminescent cyphelloid taxon is described as the new genus Eoscyphella, characterized by a vasiform to urceolate basidiomata, subglobose to broadly ellipsoid basidiospores, being pigmented, weakly to densely encrusted external hyphae, regularly bi-spored basidia, unclamped hyphae, and an absence of both conspicuous long external hairs and hymenial cystidia. Phylogenetic analyses based on ITS rDNA and LSU rDNA support the proposal of the new genus and confirm its position in Cyphellopsidaceae. Eoscyphella luciurceolata represents a new lineage of bioluminescent basidiomycetes with reduced forms.
... The mangrove Basidiomycota are represented in two marine clades: The Nia clades includes Calathella mangrovei, Halocyphina villosa and Nia vibrissa (Hibbett and Binder 2001;Binder et al. 2006). More recently, Abdel-Wahab et al. (2019b) in introducing the taxon Nia lenicarpa from Red Sea mangroves in Saudi Arabia, deomstrated that these basidiomycetes group in the family Niaceae (Jülich 1981, Laessøe et al. 2016. The second clade comprises Haloaleurodiscus mangrovei reported from dead trunks and branches of Sonneratia alba in mangrove forests of Japan (Maekawa et al. 2005a, b). ...
This is a multidimensional review of mangrove fungi occurring as saprobes, pathogens and endophytes of a wide range of host substrates and those isolated from the water columns and sediments in mangroves. Eight-hundred and fifty taxa including 658 that are supported by both morphology and molecular data and 192 with only morphological data are listed. These constitute Ascomycota, the dominant group with 773 species, and 58 Basidiomycota, one Blastocladiomycota, five Chytridiomycota, and 13 Mucoromycota. This study also includes data on mangrove yeasts 103 Ascomycota, 39 Basidiomycota and 193 taxa isolated from sediments. Endophytes isolated from submerged parts of mangrove plants total 38. The most specious orders of mangrove fungi are Pleosporales 133, Saccharomycetales 102, Microascales 101, Eurotiales 87, Hypocreales 60 and Xylariales 54. Speciose genera include Candida 39, Aspergillus 53, Penicillium 17 and Corollospora 16. The highest number of mangrove fungi have been recorded from the Pacific Ocean 553, which is the largest ocean, followed by Indian 408 and Atlantic Oceans 259. Geographical distribution of mangrove fungi varied from ocean to ocean with only 109 taxa common to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. Of the various countries reported for mangrove fungi, India accommodates the highest number (339) followed by Thailand 303, Malaysia 171, Florida Everglades, USA 134 and Brunei 134. A total of 60 different mangrove plants and their associates have been surveyed for mangrove fungi. These results are discussed and compared with previous studies.
... The genus Nia has been variously classified in different families: Torrendiaceae, Melanogastrales (Dring 1973); Nidulariaceae (Rosselló et al. 1993); Nia clade (Bodensteiner et al. 2004); Cyphellaceae (Matheny et al. 2006) and Niaceae (Jülich 1981, Laessøe et al. 2016. Binder et al. (2001) placed N. vibrissa in the euagaric clade, forming a sister group with Henningsomyces candidus (Pers.) ...
... Hanada & Harada (2005) described Flagelloscypha japonica and placed it in Niaceae, Agaricales. Laessøe et al. (2016) introduced a new cyphelloid taxon Maireina filipendula Laessøe (2016: 40), in the Niaceae, Agaricales and included N. vibrissa in their phylogenetical analysis. Phylogenetic analyses of SSU and LSU rDNA placed Nia species in Niaceae with high statistical support (89 ML/ 90 MP/ 100 BYPP) along with three marine genera: Calathella, Digitatispora, Halocyphina and another nine terrestrial genera: Cyphellopsis Donk (1931: 128), Dendrothele, Favolaschia, Flagelloscypha, lachnella, Maireina (Pilát) W.B. Cooke (1961: 83), Merismodes, Peyronelina G. Arnaud (1952: 213) and Woldmaria (Bodensteiner et al. 2004, Laessøe et al. 2016, Azevedo et al. 2018. ...
... Laessøe et al. (2016) introduced a new cyphelloid taxon Maireina filipendula Laessøe (2016: 40), in the Niaceae, Agaricales and included N. vibrissa in their phylogenetical analysis. Phylogenetic analyses of SSU and LSU rDNA placed Nia species in Niaceae with high statistical support (89 ML/ 90 MP/ 100 BYPP) along with three marine genera: Calathella, Digitatispora, Halocyphina and another nine terrestrial genera: Cyphellopsis Donk (1931: 128), Dendrothele, Favolaschia, Flagelloscypha, lachnella, Maireina (Pilát) W.B. Cooke (1961: 83), Merismodes, Peyronelina G. Arnaud (1952: 213) and Woldmaria (Bodensteiner et al. 2004, Laessøe et al. 2016, Azevedo et al. 2018. ...
An undescribed Nia species was recorded from intertidal decayed wood of Avicennia marina collected from Red Sea mangroves in Saudi Arabia. Nia lenicarpa sp. nov. is characterized by smooth basidiomes, growing singly or in groups of 2 to 10 confluent basidiomes, with a three-layered, thick peridium and 4-spored basidia. Nia lenicarpa differs from N. vibrissa by having smaller basidiomes without peridial hairs but with thick peridia, larger basidia and basidiospores. Phylogenetic analyses of SSU and LSU rDNA placed N. lenicarpa in a monophyletic clade with two N. vibrissa clades. There are no molecular data available for the other two Nia species; N. epidermoidea and N. globispora. The morphology of N. vibrissa from driftwood collected from a beach in Japan is illustrated. Vertical sections of basidiomes of the Japanese material showed the presence of an outer peridium that is formed by the tips of the peridial hairs which was not reported before. This supports the presence of several cryptic species in the N. vibrissa complex.
... The paper briefly describes the Polish finds, gives information on its distribution, and discusses its ecology. Molecular data are still lacking for C. eruciformis, as the species has not been included in any DNA study of the broadly defined genus Flagelloscypha and allies Bodensteiner et al. 2004;Matheny et al. 2006;Yamaguchi et al. 2009;Laessøe et al. 2016). Hence, we used a phylogenetic analysis of nuclear ribosomal DNA (ITS) sequences to tentatively determine the phylogenetic position of this elusive species. ...
... A new genus name to replace the illegitimate homonym has not been introduced yet. Molecular phylogenetic analyses based on partial nuclear LSU rDNA involving three species of Calathella (terrestrial C. columbiana, C. gayana, marine, salt-tolerant C. mangrovei) indicate unresolved phylogenetic relationships of the fungi and suggest that the genus Calathella is not monophyletic (Bodensteiner et al. 2004;Yamaguchi et al. 2009;Laessøe et al. 2016). The results of our molecular analyses (Fig. 3) agree with those of previous molecular data that suggested close relationships between aquatic homobasidiomycetes represented by the Nia core clade and terrestrial cyphelloid taxa Bodensteiner et al. 2004;Yamaguchi et al. 2009;Laessøe et al. 2016). ...
... Molecular phylogenetic analyses based on partial nuclear LSU rDNA involving three species of Calathella (terrestrial C. columbiana, C. gayana, marine, salt-tolerant C. mangrovei) indicate unresolved phylogenetic relationships of the fungi and suggest that the genus Calathella is not monophyletic (Bodensteiner et al. 2004;Yamaguchi et al. 2009;Laessøe et al. 2016). The results of our molecular analyses (Fig. 3) agree with those of previous molecular data that suggested close relationships between aquatic homobasidiomycetes represented by the Nia core clade and terrestrial cyphelloid taxa Bodensteiner et al. 2004;Yamaguchi et al. 2009;Laessøe et al. 2016). Moreover, our studies continue to demonstrate the polyphyly not only of Calathella (Agerer 1983) but apparently also broadly understood Flagelloscypha (Fig. 3) (Knudsen 2012;Cooper 2015). ...
Calathella eruciformis , a species hitherto unknown in Poland, is reported from four localities in the north-eastern part of the country. This wood-inhabiting saprotroph was found on dead decorticated but still attached twigs and branches of living Populus tremula in an oak-hornbeam forest ( Carpinion betuli ). Macro- and microcharacters of the recently collected material are presented in detail, together with selected illustrations. Examination of ITS rDNA sequences indicated that Calathella is not monophyletic and that the type species of the genus C. eruciformis is alien to the heterogeneous genus Flagelloscypha . Furthermore, molecular evidence is provided for a close relationship between C. eruciformis and the type species of the genus Sphaerobasidioscypha , Sphaerobasidioscypha citrispora .
The phylogenetic position of several clitocyboid/pleurotoid/tricholomatoid genera previously considered incertae sedis is here resolved using an updated 6-gene dataset of Agaricales including newly sequenced lineages and more complete data from those already analyzed before. Results allowed to infer new phylogenetic relationships, and propose taxonomic novelties to accommodate them, including up to ten new families and a new suborder. Giacomia (for which a new species from China is here described) forms a monophyletic clade with Melanoleuca (Melanoleucaceae) nested inside suborder Pluteineae, together with the families Pluteaceae, Amanitaceae (including Leucocortinarius), Limnoperdaceae and Volvariellaceae. The recently described family Asproinocybaceae is shown to be a later synonym of Lyophyllaceae (which includes also Omphaliaster and Trichocybe) within suborder Tricholomatineae. The families Biannulariaceae, Callistosporiaceae, Clitocybaceae, Fayodiaceae, Macrocystidiaceae (which includes Pseudoclitopilus), Entolomataceae, Pseudoclitocybaceae (which includes Aspropaxillus), Omphalinaceae (Infundibulicybe and Omphalina) and the new families Paralepistaceae and Pseudoomphalinaceae belong also to Tricholomatineae. The delimitation of the suborder Pleurotineae (= Schizophyllineae) is discussed and revised, accepting five distinct families within it, viz. Pleurotaceae, Cyphellopsidaceae, Fistulinaceae, Resupinataceae and Schizophyllaceae. The recently proposed suborder Phyllotopsidineae (= Sarcomyxineae) is found to encompass the families Aphroditeolaceae, Pterulaceae, Phyllotopsidaceae, Radulomycetaceae, Sarcomyxaceae (which includes Tectella), and Stephanosporaceae, all of them unrelated to Pleurotaceae (suborder Pleurotineae) or Typhulaceae (suborder Typhulineae). The new family Xeromphalinaceae, encompassing the genera Xeromphalina and Heimiomyces, is proposed within Marasmiineae. The suborder Hygrophorineae is here reorganized into the families Hygrophoraceae, Cantharellulaceae, Cuphophyllaceae, Hygrocybaceae and Lichenomphaliaceae, to homogenize the taxonomic rank of the main clades inside all suborders of Agaricales. Finally, the genus Hygrophorocybe is shown to represent a distinct clade inside Cuphophyllaceae, and the new combination H. carolinensis is proposed.
The article focuses on five species of cyphelloid fungi with tubular basidiomata – Hennigsomyces candidus, Hennigsomyces puber, Maireina ochracea, Phaeosolenia densa and Woldmaria filicina. A macro- and microscopic description plus photographs and drawings of microscopic characters are included for each species. A new combination is proposed – Maireina ochracea (Hoffm.) L. Zíbarová for Peziza ochracea Hoffm.
