Kionochaeta
Kionochaeta P.M. Kirk & B. Sutton, Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. 85(4): 712 (1986)
Index Fungorum number: IF11111
Type species – Kionochaeta ramifera (Matsush.) P.M. Kirk & B. Sutton
Notes – Species of Kionochaeta occur on decaying leaves and twigs in freshwater and terrestrial habitats (Crous et al. 1994b, Kuthubutheen et al. 1988, Goh & Hyde 1997, Yanna & Hyde 2002). Kionochaeta species are characterised by macronematous, mononematous, solitary conidiophores, densely clustered, monophialidic, ampulliform, and hyaline to pale yellow conidia aggregated into a slimy drop (Kirk & Sutton 1985, Goh & Hyde 1997, Okada et al. 1997). Currently, 13 species are accepted in this genus (Wijayawardene et al. 2022)
Species recorded from soil
Kionochaeta microspora
References:
Crous PW, Wingfield MJ, Kendrick WB. 1994 – Kionochaeta pini sp. nov. and Verrucophragmia splendens gen. nov. from leaf litter in South Africa. Mycologia 447−450.
Goh TK, Hyde KD. 1997 – The generic distinction between Chaetopsina and Kionochaeta, with descriptions of two new species. Mycological Research 101, 1517–1523.
Kirk PM, Sutton BC. 1985 – A reassessment of the anamorph genus Chaetopsina (Hyphomycetes). Transactions of the British Mycological Society 85, 709–717.
Kuthubutheen AJ, Nawawi A. 1988 – Two new species of Kionochaeta (Hyphomycetes) and K. ramifera from Malaysia. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 90, 437–444.
Okada G, Takematsu A, Takamura Y. 1997 – Phylogenetic relationships of the hyphomycete genera Chaetopsina and Kionochaeta based on 18S rDNA sequences. Mycoscience 38, 409– 420.
Wijayawardene NN, Hyde KD, Dai DQ, Sánchez-García M et al. 2022 – Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa-2021. Mycosphere 13, 53–453.
Yanna, Hyde KD. 2002 – New saprobic fungi on fronds of palms from northern Queensland, Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 15, 755–764.
Recent Genus
NeurosporaParacremonium
Amphichorda
Recent Species
Neurospora tetrasporaParacremonium apiculatum
Amphichorda cavernicola