Resinomelania Czachura & Piątek, 2025

Czachura, Paweł & Piątek, Marcin, 2025, Discovery of the first resinicolous fungus in Mycosphaerellales (Dothideomycetes): Resinomelania communis from conifer resins in Poland, MycoKeys 120, pp. 119-138 : 119-138

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.120.154464

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16568213

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A6BB7CF4-811D-5FB4-9F14-662D4841D21A

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scientific name

Resinomelania Czachura & Piątek
status

gen. nov.

Resinomelania Czachura & Piątek gen. nov.

Etymology.

The genus name refers to a resinicolous lifestyle and the dark, melanized mycelium of this fungus.

Description.

Mycelium composed of branched, septate, hyaline, subhyaline, pale brown to brown, smooth or verruculose, cylindrical and moniliform hyphae, with hyphal swellings. Chlamydospores subglobose or broadly ellipsoidal, pale brown to brown, smooth or slightly verruculose, aseptate or muriformly septate, intercalary or terminal, single. Arthroconidia broadly ellipsoidal, one-septate or rarely aseptate, mostly constricted at septa, pale brown to brown, smooth or verruculose, intercalary or terminal, in chains.

Type species.

Resinomelania communis Czachura & Piątek .