Cordieritidaceae

Calabon, Mark S., Jones, E. B. Gareth, Pang, Ka-Lai, Abdel-Wahab, Mohamed A., Jin, Jing, Devadatha, Bandarupalli, Sadaba, Resurreccion B., Apurillo, Carlo Chris & Hyde, Kevin D., 2023, Updates on the classification and numbers of marine fungi, Botanica Marina (Warsaw, Poland) 66 (4), pp. 213-238 : 216

2.3.2 Cordieritidaceae

Fryar et al. (2019) introduced the genus Annabella with A. australiensis as the type species collected on decaying decorticated branches of Avicennia marina in South Australia and referred it to the Cordieritidaceae ( Helotiales ) in the subclass Leotiomycetidae ( Leotiomycetes). This is the first marine species record of this subclass introduced by Kirk et al. (2008) and the family Cordieritidaceae . Annabella australiensis differs from other taxa within Cordieritidaceae in having hyaline to yellowish perithecioid apothecia, contrasting with the usually dark-coloured apothecia of other members of the family ( Fryar et al. 2019). Due to this absence of perithecoid pigment, Annabella australiensis differs from other taxa in the family. Ascospores are hyaline, vary in shape from ellipsoid to fusoid to oblong, are aseptate, and lack appendages or sheaths.