Kew's top 10 new species of 2025 Kew's scientists and international partners share their favourite species named as new to science in another big year for nature.

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#KewGardens #newspecies #Ascomycota, #entomopathogens #genomics #conservation #cordyceps

Very cool cankers on oak, displaying both the asexual and sexual phases of this polycyclic plant pathogen: Coral Spot - Nectria cinnabarina species complex #mycology #ascomycota

Funky little black Asco cup mushrooms in the Sarcosomataceae family #ascomycota

Two New Fungal Species in the Hypocreales from the Soil in Ngari Prefecture, Xizang, China

#Ascomycota
#Qinghai–XizangPlateau
#specialenvironment
#microfungi
#2newtaxa

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Contribution to the fungal diversity of the Upper Neretva River valley (Bosnia and Herzegovina) | Natura Sloveniae Baral HO, Weber E, Marson G. 2020. Monograph of Orbiliomycetes (Ascomycota) based on vital taxonomy. Part I + II. Luxembourg: National Museum of Natural History Luxembourg.

Contribution to the fungal diversity of the Upper Neretva River valley (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

#Ascomycota
#BalkanPeninsula
#Basidiomycota
#Fagus
#fruitingbody
#old-growthforest
#red-listedspecies
#riparianforest

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Diplodia-Arten an Apfelbäumen (Malus domestica) mit Schwarzem Rindenbrand in einer Streuobstwiese in der Oberlausitz

#Ascomycota
#Diplodia
#pathogen
#pome
#systematics
#wood

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Discoveries of Dothideomycetes (Fungi) associated with pteridophytes in China Pteridophytes are iconic symbols of the Earth’s biodiversity and harbor diverse fungal communities. In this study, an investigation of saprobic fungi associated with pteridophytes in China identified ...

Discoveries of Dothideomycetes (Fungi) associated with pteridophytes in China

#Ascomycota
#13newtaxa
#fivenewcombinations
#southwesternChina
#taxonomy

imafungus.pensoft.net/article/1677...

AJT 106: 1-11

Pyropezia, a new genus to accommodate Peziza rifaii (Pezizaceae, Ascomycota)

#Ascomycota
#cup-formingfungi
#Pezizomycota
#pyrophilousdiscomycetes
#taxonomy

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(PDF) IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science Isolation and Characterization of Coprophilous Ascomycetes from Cows and Sheep Dung in Iraq You may also like Heme Biosynthesis and Degrada... PDF | Many studies have been conducted to isolate coprophilous ascomycota fungi from cows and sheep dung in Iraq, but no such work has been done in... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...

Isolation and Characterization of Coprophilous Ascomycetes from Cows and Sheep Dung in Iraq

#Coprophilousfungi
#Ascomycota
#Dung
#Ascobolus
#Saccobolus

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(PDF) First record of Bartalinia kevinhydei (Sporocadaceae, Ascomycota) associated with the stroma of Ophiocordyceps sp. in India PDF | Bartalinia kevinhydei is reported here for the first time from India, where it was isolated from the stromata of Ophiocordyceps sp. and displaying... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

First record of Bartalinia kevinhydei (Sporocadaceae, Ascomycota) associated with the stroma of Ophiocordyceps sp. in India

#Bartalinia
#Sporocadaceae
#Ascomycota

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Two new Periconia species (Pleosporales, Ascomycota) in China During an investigation of fungal diversity in Guangxi and Yunnan provinces, two interesting hyphomycetes were collected and isolated. Based on morphology, these hyphomycetes were similar to Periconia...

Two new Periconia species (Pleosporales, Ascomycota) in China

#Periconia
#Pleosporales
#Ascomycota

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Pleurophragmium parvisporum (Ascomycota): One name, seven stories – a case highlighting the need for verification of strains from public culture collections Public repositories of living fungal strains provide essential reference points and support diverse scientific outcomes. Current best practices for preserving fungal strains emphasise the generation o...

Pleurophragmium parvisporum (Ascomycota): One name, seven stories – a case highlighting the need for verification of strains from public culture collections

#Pleurophragmium
#Ascomycota
#Dactylaria
#DNAbarcode
#holoblastic-denticulateconidiogenesis
#newtaxa

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Contamination of fungal genomes of Onygenaceae (Phylum Ascomycota) in public databases: incidence, detection, and impact Genomic datasets often contain unwanted, foreign, or erroneous nucleotide sequences that do not belong to the organism under study. Such contamination can significantly compromise genome analyses, reducing the accuracy and reliability of the ...

Contamination of fungal genomes of Onygenaceae (Phylum Ascomycota) in public databases: incidence, detection, and impact

#Onygenaceae
#Ascomycota
#Contamination
#Fungi
#Onygenales
#Wholegenomesequencing

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Taxonomic novelties in Dictyosporiaceae and Pleurotremataceae (Dothideomycetes, Ascomycota): Two new species and three new host reports in the coastal region of Guangdong Province, China During a survey of microflora associated with dead plant substrates in coastal regions of Guangdong Province, China, we identified several interesting Dothideomycetes fungi and provided refined update...

Taxonomic novelties in Dictyosporiaceae and Pleurotremataceae
(Dothideomycetes, Ascomycota): Two new species and three new
host reports in the coastal region of Guangdong Province, China

#Dictyosporiaceae
#Pleurotremataceae
#Dothideomycetes
#Ascomycota

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(PDF) First records of Onygena equina , Panaeolus plantaginiformis , Tuber aff. iranicum and rediscovery of Battarrea phalloides in Armenia. PDF | In this paper, we report the first occurrence in Armenia of two fungi belonging to the phylum Ascomycota : the keratinophilic species Onygena... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...

First records of Onygena equina , Panaeolus plantaginiformis , Tuber aff. iranicum and rediscovery of Battarrea phalloides in Armenia.

#Onygena
#Panaeolus
#Tuber
#Battarrea
#Ascomycota
#Basidiomycota
#biodiversity
#Excavatumclade
#sandystiltball
#hornstalkball

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(PDF) Mycosphere Notes 572-624: Exploring the hidden diversity of fungi and fungilike taxa in different terrestrial microhabitats PDF | This is the 14th in a series of Mycosphere notes where we provide entries on new species and higher taxa, including new host records, and... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Re...

Mycosphere Notes 572-624: Exploring the hidden diversity of fungi and fungilike taxa in different terrestrial microhabitats

#fungi
#fungiliketaxa
#newrecords
#3newgenera
#48newspecies
#Amoebozoa
#Ascomycota
#Basidiomycota
#Mucoromycota
#Phylogeny
#Taxonomy

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Expanding the genus Neobaryopsis (Calcarisporiaceae, Hypocreales): descriptions of two new species and two new combinations based on morphological and molecular data The genus Neobaryopsis (Calcarisporiaceae) comprises lichenicolous fungi with bright-colored perithecia, long, multiseptate, filiform ascospores, and mononematous conidiophores or distinctive synnemat...

Expanding the genus Neobaryopsis (Calcarisporiaceae, Hypocreales): descriptions of two new species and two new combinations based on morphological and molecular data

#Neobaryopsis
#Calcarisporiaceae
#Hypocreales
#Ascomycota
#cloudforest
#diversity

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(PDF) New and rare fungi on alien woody plants in Sverdlovsk region (The Middle Urals, Russia) PDF | A groundbreaking study has documented 28 species of phytopathogenic and saprobic fungi, belonging to Ascomycota and Basidiomycota divisions, on... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

New and rare fungi on alien woody plants in Sverdlovsk region (The Middle Urals, Russia)

#fungi
#alienspecies
#Ascomycota
#Basidiomycota
#biodiversity
#fungaldistribution
#invasion
#plantpathogens

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Molecular detection and symptomatology of
Lasiodiplodia theobromae (Ascomycota) infecting
rose apples (Syzygium samarangense) in Malaysia

#Lasiodiplodia
#Ascomycota
#fruitanthracnose
#roseapple
#Syzygium

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A new Ernakulamia (Pleosporales, Tetraplosphaeriaceae) species found on palm in Brazil

#Ernakulamia
#Pleosporales
#Tetraplosphaeriaceae
#Ascomycota
#Brazilianfungi
#Molecularphylogeny
#Noveltaxon
#Taxonomy

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High Fire Drives the Reorganization of Taiga Soil Fungal Communities with Ascomycota as the Dominant Phylum After Long-Term Recovery

#FungalCommunities
#Ascomycota
#soilfungalcommunities
#borealforests
#wildfiredisturbance
#long-termpost-firerecovery

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(PDF) Pseudocoprotus catenipilus (Pezizales) récolté pour la première fois en Corse PDF | Description and illustration of the first Corsican collection of Pseudocoprotus catenipilus, a rare coprophilous discomycete | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

Pseudocoprotus catenipilus (Pezizales) récolté pour la première fois en Corse

#Pseudocoprotus
#Pezizales
#Ascomycota
#Ascodesmidaceae
#taxinomie
#taxonomy

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Primeiro registro de Ophiocordyceps humbertii (Ascomycota) para a Bahia e novas ocorrências para a funga conquistense | Paubrasilia Copyright (c) 2025 Joanderson Prado-Santos, Cecília Oliveira de Azevedo, Gabriel Chaves Soares, Ellen Heitmann de Queiroz, Claudenir Simões Caires

Primeiro registro de Ophiocordyceps humbertii (Ascomycota) para a Bahia e novas ocorrências para a funga conquistense

#Ophiocordyceps
#Ascomycota
#FungadaBahia
#Mata-de-cipó
#PlanaltodaConquista
#Semiárido

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New species and records of ascomycetes on cypress in Beijing, China Cypress, a collective term for plants belonging to the Cupressaceae family, is widely utilized in Chinese landscaping and holds considerable economic and medicinal importance. In recent years, dieback...

New species and records of ascomycetes on cypress in Beijing, China

#ascomycetes
#Ascomycota
#cypress
#morphology
#multi-genephylogenetic
#taxonomy

mycokeys.pensoft.net/article/165848

Morphological and molecular identification of new species and records of Daldinia (Hypoxylaceae, Xylariales) from Guizhou Province, China Members of Daldinia are widely distributed and commonly found on decaying wood, branches, and diseased leaves. In this study, four strains of Daldinia were isolated from diseased leaves of Indocalamus...

Morphological and molecular identification of new species and records of Daldinia (Hypoxylaceae, Xylariales) from Guizhou Province, China

#Daldinia
#Hypoxylaceae
#Xylariales
#Ascomycota
#morphology
#newtaxon
#phylogeny
#taxonomy

mycokeys.pensoft.net/article/160960

Morpho-phylogenetic evidence reveals two new species and two new host records of Diaporthe (Diaporthales, Diaporthaceae) from Phellodendron chinense in Sichuan, China Diaporthe species are globally distributed with a wide variety of plant hosts inhabiting diverse ecological niches and functioning as endophytes, saprobes and pathogens. Numerous species in this genus...

Morpho-phylogenetic evidence reveals two new species and two new host records of Diaporthe (Diaporthales, Diaporthaceae) from Phellodendron chinense in Sichuan, China

#Diaporthe
#Diaporthales
#Diaporthaceae
#Ascomycota
#coelomycetousasexualmorph
#phylogeny

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Saw loads of Spathularia flavida in Staffordshire yesterday. I normally see a few at this site, but there seemed to be patches everywhere this year #FungiFriends #ukwildlife #mycology #fungi #Ascomycota

(PDF) Fungal community composition associated with the agarwood-producing tree, Aquilaria sinensis PDF | Agarwood, a precious and rare resin, is primarily produced by Aquilaria sinensis of the plant family Thymelaeaceae. The fungi associated with... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...

Fungal community composition associated with the agarwood-producing tree, Aquilaria sinensis

#Fungalcommunity
#agarwood-associatedfungi
#Ascomycota
#Banksiophoma
#Deniquelata
#Fomitiporia
#Montagnula
#morphology
#phylogeny

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Diversity of Culturable Fungi in Two-Phase Olive Mill Waste, a Preliminary Evaluation of Their Enzymatic Potential, and Two New Trichoderma Species

#Fungi
#Trichoderma
#Ascomycota
#biodegradationoflignocellulosics
#effluentdetoxification
#fungaldiversity
#newspecies

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First record of Trichonectria hirta (Bionectriaceae, Ascomycota) from southeastern Europe Trichonectria hirta is a lichenicolous fungus on corticolous and lignicolous lichens or a saprotroph on wood. It is known from Europe and was a common species in western Europe in the 1980s, but its p...

First record of Trichonectria hirta (Bionectriaceae, Ascomycota) from southeastern Europe

#Trichonectria
#Bionectriaceae
#Ascomycota

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