Raghukumaria keshaphalae

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 : 227

2.5.18 Raghukumaria keshaphalae

Jones et al. (2020) introduced a monotypic genus Raghukumaria with Raghukumaria keshaphalae as the type species isolated from decayed wood of Aegiceras cornicualtum in India. Multi-locus phylogenetic analysis showed that Raghukumaria forms a distinct clade within the Trematosphaeriaceae and shares a close phylogenetic affinity to Halomassarina species. Raghukumaria differs from the latter in ascomatal (e.g., immersed, without a clypeus and periphyses, covered by hyphae-like setae) and ascospore morphology (e.g., broadly fusiform, with narrowly rounded ends, rough-walled or slightly verruculose, lacking globules, appendages or gelatinous sheaths) ( Jones et al. 2020).