The word Fuscosporella is derived from the Latin word -fusco, meaning dark and the Greek word spore meaning “seed, sowing”.[4]
History
Fuscosporella was originally established as a monotypic genus for Fuscosporella pyriformisJ. Yang, J. Bhat & K.D. Hyde, and it is the type genus of Fuscosporellaceae (Yang et al. 2016).[1]Fuscosporella pyriformis is morphologically similar to Parafuscosprella moniliformisJ. Yang, J. Bhat & K.D. Hyde and Parafuscosprella mucosaJ. Yang, J. Bhat & K.D. Hyde, as they share characters such as uniseptate (having a single cell wall), dark brown, obvoid (egg-shaped and solid, with the narrow end at the base) to obpyriform (shaped like that of a pear, with the base at the narrower end) conidia of similar size, and hyaline (glassy/transparent), vesicular (bladder-like sac) conidiogenous cells. Parafuscosporella garethiiBoonyuen, Chuaseehar. & Somrith. is significantly different from the species in its obpyramidal conidia, which are coronate at the apex with unusual conical projections (Boonyuen et al. 2016).[5] However, molecular evidence later gave a precise classification.[6]
Fuscosporella xingyiensis was published in 2022, but not yet fully accepted.[8]
Distribution
It has been only found in a few places worldwide, such as; off the coast of south America, in central Asia, in Thailand and China.[9][10]
Species in Fuscosporella and Mucispora are reported from freshwater habitats in Thailand and China,[1][11][12]
References
^ abcYang, Jing; Maharachchikumbura, Sajeewa S. N.; Bhat, D. Jayarama; Hyde, Kevin D.; McKenzie, Eric H. C.; Gareth Jones, E. B.; Al-Sadi, Abdullah M.; Lumyong, Saisamorn (1 December 2016). "Fuscosporellales, a New Order of Aquatic and Terrestrial Hypocreomycetidae (Sordariomycetes)". Cryptogamie, Mycologie. 37 (4): 449–475. doi:10.7872/crym/v37.iss4.2016.449.