Foliophoma camporesii
Foliophoma camporesii D. Pem & K.D. Hyde, in Hyde et al., Fungal Diversity 100: 28 (2020)
Index Fungorum number: IF556797; Facesofungi number: FoF 06466
Etymology: Named in honour of Erio Camporesi, a prolific collector of fungi from Italy and in recognition of his immense contribution to mycology.
Holotype: MFLU 17–1006
Saprobic or pathogenic on dead aerial stem of Maclura pomifera. Sexual morph: Undetermined. Asexual morph: Conidiomata 40–47 × 40–69 μm (x̄ = 43.3 × 48 µm, n = 20), pycnidial, globose to subglobose, ellipsoidal, or irregular, immersed to semi-immersed, carbonaceous. Pycnidial walls 15–40 μm, comprising 1–2-layered of cells of textura angularis. Conidiophores reduced to conidiogenous cells. Conidiogenous cells 2–4 × 2–3 μm (x̄ = 2.6 × 2.2 µm, n = 20), phialidic with periclinal thickening or percurrent proliferation at apex, hyaline, smooth, globose to short cylindrical. Conidia 2–6 × 3–5 μm (x̄ = 4.9 × 3.9 µm, n = 20), ovoid to ellipsoidal, hyaline when immature, brown at maturity, aseptate, smooth- and thin-walled.
Culture characteristics: Colonies on MEA, 20–25 mm diam. after 7 days at 16 °C, margin regular, circular, aerial mycelia thinly hairy, white and flat; reverse grey and white at the margin.
Material examined: ITALY, Province of Forlì-Cesena [FC], Predappio Alta-Predappio, on dead aerial stem of Maclura pomifera (Moraceae), 5 May 2017, E. Camporesi, IT 3345 (MFLU 17–1006, holotype), ex-type living cultures, MFLUCC 18–1129.
GenBank Numbers: ITS: MN244200; LSU: MN244170; SSU: MN244176.
Note: Strain MFLUCC 18–1129 was isolated from dead stem of Maclura pomifera in Italy. Foliophoma camporesii has a close phylogenetic affinity to F. fallens, the type species of Foliophoma. It differs from F. fallens in having smaller conidiomata (40–47 × 40–69 μm versus 120–250 μm) and brown conidia. ITS nucleotide comparisons show a difference of 12 base pairs or 2% difference between our new taxon and F. fallens. We, therefore, introduce F. camporesii as the second species in Foliophoma.
Figure x. Foliophoma camporesii (MFLU 17–1006, holotype). a–b Appearance of conidiomata on host surface. c Close up of conidioma. d–g Conidiogenesis. h–m Conidia. Scale bars: a–b = 200 μm, c = 100 μm, d–e, g = 10 μm, f, h–m = 5 μm.
References:
Hyde KD, Dong Y, Phookamsak R, Jeewon R et al. 2020 – Fungal diversity notes 1151–1276: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions on genera and species of fungal taxa. Fungal Diversity 16:1–273.