Arthrocatenaceae Piątek, Stryjak-Bogacka & Czachura, 2024

Piątek, Marcin, Stryjak-Bogacka, Monika & Czachura, Paweł, 2024, Arthrocatenales, a new order of extremophilic fungi in the Dothideomycetes, MycoKeys 108, pp. 47-74 : 47-74

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/mycokeys.108.128033

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13361985

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3046409E-AFC1-5F9A-A2AF-385807D2E6F3

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scientific name

Arthrocatenaceae Piątek, Stryjak-Bogacka & Czachura
status

fam. nov.

Arthrocatenaceae Piątek, Stryjak-Bogacka & Czachura fam. nov.

Etymology.

Named after the genus Arthrocatena .

Description.

Colonies erumpent, spreading, with elevated and folded center, greenish olivaceous, forming concentric rings, margin smooth, entire or undulate. Reverse black. Mycelium composed of branched, septate, pale brown or brown, smooth, straight, flexuose or torulose, thin-walled hyphae. Arthroconidia ellipsoid or broadly ellipsoid, rarely barrel-shaped, brown, smooth, one-septate, intercalary or on side branches, single or in chains. Chlamydospore-like cells spherical, brown, smooth, aseptate, intercalary, in simple or branched chains. Chlamydospores spherical, brown, smooth, muriformly septate, intercalary, single.

Type genus.

Arthrocatena Egidi & Selbmann.