Cosmospora Explained
Cosmospora is a genus of ascomycete fungi in the family Nectriaceae. The genus, as circumscribed by Rossman et al. (1998), included all the nectrioid species with small, reddish, non-ornamented sexual fruiting bodies that collapse laterally when dry. However, the genus was shown to be polyphyletic, and the majority of species were re-classified into revived or recently established genera that are monophyletic. Cosmospora sensu Rossman housed members of the following genera: Chaetopsina, Cylindrocladiella, Fusicolla, Macroconia, Mariannaea, Microcera, Pseudocosmospora, Stylonectria, and Volutella. Cosmospora was restricted to species having acremonium-like asexual morphs that grow on polypores and xylariaceous fungi by Gräfenhan in 2011. About 20 species are accepted in the genus (Gräfenhan et al. 2011; Herrera et al. 2015; Zeng and Zhuang et al. 2016; Luo et al. 2019; Lechat et al. 2021).[1]
The name Cosmospora comes from Greek kosmos + spora, meaning ornamented spores.
Species
Cosmospora
- Cosmospora coccinea
- Cosmospora arxii
- Cosmospora butyri
- Cosmospora cymosa
- Cosmospora khandalensis
- Cosmospora lavitskiae
- Cosmospora scruposae[1]
- Cosmospora viliuscula
- Cosmospora viridescens
Chaetopsina
- Chaetopsina fulva
- Chaetopsina penicillata
- Chaetopsina polyblastia
Cylindrocladiella
- Cylindrocladiella microcylindrica
Dialonectria
Fusicolla
Macroconia
- Macroconia leptosphaeriae
- Macroconia cupularis
- Macroconia gigas
- Macroconia papilionacearum
Mariannaea
Microcera
- Microcera coccophila
- Microcera diploa
- Microcera larvarum
Pseudocosmospora
- Pseudocosmospora joca
- Pseudocosmospora metepisphaeria
- Pseudocosmospora pseudepisphaeria
- Pseudocosmospora triqua
- Pseudocosmospora vilior
Stylonectria
- Stylonectria purtonii
- Stylonectria wegeliniana
Volutella
- Volutella consors
- Volutella citrinella
Incertae sedis
- Cosmospora biasolettiana
- Cosmospora chlorina
- Cosmospora damingshanica
- Cosmospora digitalicola
- Cosmospora diminuta
- Cosmospora dingleyae
- Cosmospora effusa
- Cosmospora geastroides
- Cosmospora glabra
- Cosmospora henanensis
- Cosmospora hispanica
- Cosmospora japonica
- Cosmospora jucundula
- Cosmospora kurdica
- Cosmospora lasiodiplodiae
- Cosmospora macrochaetopsinae
- Cosmospora marelliana
- Cosmospora meliopsicola
- Cosmospora nothepisphaeria
- Cosmospora nummulariae
- Cosmospora obscura
- Cosmospora peponum
- Cosmospora pseudoflavoviridis
- Cosmospora purpureocolla
- Cosmospora rickii
- Cosmospora rubrisetosa
- Cosmospora sansevieriae
- Cosmospora stegonsporii
- Cosmospora stilbosporae
- Cosmospora thujana
- Cosmospora tungurahuana
Notes and References
- Lechat . C. . Fournier . J. . Cosmospora xylariae (Nectriaceae), a new species from France, Germany and UK, with notes on C. berkeleyana, now Sphaerostilbella berkeleyana, and C. scruposae. . Ascomycete.org . 2021 . 13 . 5 . 29.
