identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
DFD5118446AB586D9A831DC6E85755C9.text	DFD5118446AB586D9A831DC6E85755C9.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Calycina botanica L. Luo & K. D. Hyde 2025	<div><p>Calycina botanica L. Luo &amp; K. D. Hyde sp. nov.</p><p>Fig. 2</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet botanica refers to the collection site “Kunming botanical garden” where the holotype specimen was collected.</p><p>Holotype.</p><p>HKAS 139497.</p><p>Description.</p><p>Saprobic on dead leaves. Sexual morph: Apothecia superficial, gregarious, 0.2–0.5 mm in diameter, 0.6–1.6 mm high when dry, discoid to cupulate, short stipitate, externally covered with dense tuberculate. Disc concave, surface smooth, yellow. Margin flat to involute, yellow. Receptacle cupulate to discoid, yellow, covered with tuberculate entirely. Stipe 0.2–0.3 mm in diameter, 0.2–0.4 mm long when dry, cylindrical, solitary, yellow, no hairs. Hymenium 30–55 µm (x – = 39 µm, n = 42), concave, surface slightly smooth, yellow in fresh and in dry. Medullary excipulum 13–24 µm (x – = 18 µm, n = 24), thin, hyaline, thin-walled cells of textura oblita to textura porrecta, 2.3–6.1 µm (x – = 4.5 µm, n = 50) in diameter. Ectal excipulum 8.5–27 µm (x – = 17 µm, n = 31) thin, thin-walled, smooth, hyaline cells of textura globulosa to oblita, 1.9–5.7 µm (x – = 3.5 µm, n = 60) in diameter. Paraphyses 22–34 × 0.8–2.4 µm (x – = 28 × 1.7 µm, n = 25), longer than asci, filiform, straight to slightly curved, aseptate, hyaline, smooth, with slightly obtuse apex. Asci 25–35 × 1.8–3.8 µm (x – = 28.5 × 2.6 µm, n = 50), 8 - spored, clavate, straight to slightly curved, inoperculate, hyaline, unitunicate, slightly smooth, with an apical, amyloid pore and rounded ends, J + in MLZ, tapered short stipitate base. Ascospores (85 / 7 / 2) (3.3 –) 3.6–5.0 (– 5.5) × 1.0–2.3 (– 2.5) µm, (x – = 4.4 × 1.7 µm, n = 55), partly biseriate, fusoid-clavate with a rounded end and a blunt end, fusiform, 0-1 - septate, thin-walled, hyaline, slightly smooth, tapering towards the obtuse ends, one or multi-guttules. Asexual morph: Not observed.</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>• China, Yunnan Province, Kunming City, Kunming Botanical Garden, altitude 1999 m, on the decayed unknown leaf, 15 October 2022, Le Luo, ly 1027 (HKAS 139497, holotype) ; ibid., Le Luo, ly 1026 (HKAS 139496, paratype) .</p><p>Notes.</p><p>Calycina botanica (HKAS 139497 and HKAS 139496) clustered the clade comprising C. cortegadensis and C. eucalypticola, with 85 % MLBP and 0.83 BIPP (Fig. 1) statistical supports, and they together formed a clade with C. marina (TROM: F 26093 and TROM: F 26101). Calycina cortegadensis was introduced by Crous et al. (2019) from a living twig of Castanea sativa from north-western Spain. The new species exhibited morphological differences with C. cortegadensis by having yellow apothecia, aseptate paraphyses, and 0–1 - septate ascospores whereas the latter species was characterized by brown apothecia, septate paraphyses, aseptate ascospores (Crous et al. 2019). Calycina botanica phylogenetically differs from C. cortegadensis by 9.3 % (46 / 490 bp) differences in the ITS region and 4.8 % (39 / 815 bp) differences in the LSU region. Calycina eucalypticola is only reported in their asexual morphs (Wu and Diao 2023). Calycina botanica phylogenetically differs from C. eucalypticola by 7.8 % (38 / 490 bp) differences in the ITS region and 5 % (41 / 815 bp) differences in the LSU region.</p><p>In addition, our new species shares morphological similarities to C. marina in having hyaline, thin-walled cells in the ectal excipulum and smooth, hyaline paraphyses. However, C. botanica differs from C. marina in having stipitate apothecia, thin-walled, non-gelatinized, textura oblita to porrecta cells of the medullary excipulum, the tuberculate ornamentation on the receptacle, smaller asci (25–35 µm vs. 58–87 µm), and smaller ascospores (3.6–5.0 µm vs. 8–13 µm), in contrast to the sessile apothecia, thick-walled, gelatinized textura angularis - prismatica into t extura intricata - porrecta cells of the medullary excipulum, and the lack of ornamentation on the receptacle of the latter (Baral and Rämä 2015). Based on morphological characters along with the phylogenetic analyses, C. botanica is introduced here as a new species.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DFD5118446AB586D9A831DC6E85755C9	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Luo, Le;Thilini Chethana, Kandawatte Wedaralalage;Zhao, Qi;Thiyagaraja, Vinodhini;Khongphinitbunjong, Kitiphong;Al-Otibi, Fatimah;Hyde, Kevin D.	Luo, Le, Thilini Chethana, Kandawatte Wedaralalage, Zhao, Qi, Thiyagaraja, Vinodhini, Khongphinitbunjong, Kitiphong, Al-Otibi, Fatimah, Hyde, Kevin D. (2025): Two new and one new morph record of Calycina (Pezizellaceae, Helotiales) species from Southwestern China. MycoKeys 122: 13-33, DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.122.158883
2DC1E0EF0819526F93EE063D815F22F2.text	2DC1E0EF0819526F93EE063D815F22F2.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Calycina brevipes (Nag Raj & W. B. Kendr.) W. P. Wu	<div><p>Calycina brevipes (Nag Raj &amp; W. B. Kendr.) W. P. Wu, in Wu and Diao, Fungal Diversity 119: 277 (2023)</p><p>Fig. 4</p><p>Holotype.</p><p>HKAS 139498.</p><p>Description.</p><p>Saprobic on the dead leaf. Sexual morph: Apothecia scattered to partly gregarious, superficial, 1.1–2.4 mm in diameter, 0.9–1.8 mm high when dry, discoid to cupulate, shortly stipitate. Disc concave, surface slightly rough, cream when fresh and orange when dry. Margin flat to slightly involute, pale orange to orange. Receptacle discoid to cupulate, cream yellow to white when fresh and pale orange to orange when dry. Stipe 0.5–1.2 mm in diameter, 0.6–1.3 mm long when dry, cylindrical, solitary, pale orange to orange. Hymenium 61–88 µm (x – = 72 µm, n = 30), concave, surface smooth, orange to deeply orange when dry. Medullary excipulum 22–50 µm (x – = 33 µm, n = 25), thin, hyaline to light yellow, thin-walled, smooth cells of textura intricata to porrecta, 1.3–2.8 µm (x – = 2.0 µm, n = 50) in diameter. Ectal excipulum 15–34 µm (x – = 24 µm, n = 20), thin-walled, smooth, light yellowish cells of textura globulosa, 1.4–4.0 µm (x – = 2.6 µm, n = 60) in diameter. Paraphyses 48–73 × 1.0–2.5 µm (x – = 64 × 1.6 µm, n = 25), longer than asci, filiform, branched, straight to slightly curved, septate, hyaline, thin-walled, rough. Asci 42–65 × (3.2 –) 3.9–5.4 (– 5.7) µm (x – = 54 × 4.6 µm, n = 42), 8 - spored, partially biseriate, clavate, straight to slightly curved, inoperculate, hyaline, unitunicate, apically thin wall, slightly smooth, with an apical, rounded ends, J + in MLZ. Ascospores (50 / 14 / 2) (4.0 –) 5.0–7.1 (– 7.9) × 0.6–1.1 (– 1.3) µm, (x – = 6.8 × 0.9 µm), fascicled, fusoid-clavate with blunt ends, aseptate, thin-walled, hyaline, obtuse ends, without oil guttules, hyaline, slightly smooth. Asexual morph: See Wu and Diao (2023)</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>• China, Yunnan Province, Puer City, Jingdong County, Ailao Mountain, altitude 2451 m, on the decayed unknown leaf, 23 August 2022, Le Luo, ly 423 (HKAS 139498), ly 456 (HKAS 139499) .</p><p>Notes.</p><p>According to the phylogenetic analyses, our collections (HKAS ly 423 and HKAS ly 456) clustered with the extant C. brevipes strains (8280 and 8302) with 100 % ML and 1.00 BP support (Fig. 1). Calycina brevipes was originally introduced as Chalara parvispora, and was later transferred to Calycina (Wu and Diao 2023), a saprobic fungus that was reported on the dead leaves of Podocarpus and other plants and distributed in Argentina, China and New Zealand (Nag Raj and Kendrick 1975; Gamundí et al. 1978). The anamorph of C. brevipes is characterized by the reduced conidiophores, consisting of one basal stalk cell and a terminal phialidic conidiogenous cell, clearly differentiated ellipsoidal venter and cylindrical collarette with a darker lower part, and aseptate, cylindrical conidia (Nag Raj and Kendrick 1975). However, in our collections, no asexual morphs were observed. Despite this, the identification of our collections as the sexual morph of C. brevipes is supported by molecular data. The ITS and LSU sequence data of our specimens (HKAS ly 423 and HKAS ly 456) exhibit 1.1 % and 0.8 % divergence, respectively, from the known C. brevipes strains 8280 and 8302. Given that these levels of genetic variation fall within intraspecific divergence thresholds and that all available strains of C. brevipes have only been known in their asexual state, we infer that our collections represent the previously unknown sexual morph of this species. Therefore, the current study presents the first report of the sexual morph of C. brevipes, marking its first record from Yunnan Province, China.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/2DC1E0EF0819526F93EE063D815F22F2	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Luo, Le;Thilini Chethana, Kandawatte Wedaralalage;Zhao, Qi;Thiyagaraja, Vinodhini;Khongphinitbunjong, Kitiphong;Al-Otibi, Fatimah;Hyde, Kevin D.	Luo, Le, Thilini Chethana, Kandawatte Wedaralalage, Zhao, Qi, Thiyagaraja, Vinodhini, Khongphinitbunjong, Kitiphong, Al-Otibi, Fatimah, Hyde, Kevin D. (2025): Two new and one new morph record of Calycina (Pezizellaceae, Helotiales) species from Southwestern China. MycoKeys 122: 13-33, DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.122.158883
0771CB1B4C82544085D5AEA93946412D.text	0771CB1B4C82544085D5AEA93946412D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Calycina xishuangbanica L. Luo & K. D. Hyde 2025	<div><p>Calycina xishuangbanica L. Luo &amp; K. D. Hyde sp. nov.</p><p>Fig. 3</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet refers to the collection site “Xishuangbanna city” where the holotype specimen was collected.</p><p>Holotype.</p><p>HKAS 139494.</p><p>Description.</p><p>Saprobic on dead bark. Sexual morph: Apothecia scattered to partly gregarious, superficial, 0.9–1.3 mm in diameter, 0.3–1.3 mm high when dry, discoid to cupulate, long stipitate, externally no hairs. Discs concave, surface smooth, white when fresh and yellow when dry. Margin flat to slightly involute, pale brown to yellow. Receptacle discoid to cupulate, pale brown to yellow. Stipe 0.15–0.35 mm in diameter, 0.2–0.8 mm long when dry, cylindrical, solitary, pale brown to yellow. Hymenium 74–111 µm (x – = 93 µm, n = 35), slightly raised, surface smooth, light brown to light yellow in dry. Medullary excipulum 20.5–49 µm (x – = 36 µm, n = 30), thin, hyaline to light brown, thin-walled cells of textura intricata to porrecta, 1.6–3.3 µm (x – = 2.5 µm, n = 50) in diameter. Ectal excipulum 27–63 µm (x – = 44 µm, n = 30) thick, thin-walled, smooth, hyaline cells of textura porrecta to textura globulosa, 1.9–4.8 µm (x = 3.2 µm, n = 60). Paraphyses 48–83 × 0.8–2.1 µm (x – = 60 × 1.4 µm, n = 35), shorter than asci, filiform, straight, aseptate, hyaline, thin-walled, smooth, with slightly obtuse apex. Asci 60–90 × 4.6–8.8 µm (x – = 75 × 7.3 µm, n = 35), 8 - spored, unitunicate, clavate, straight to slightly curved, inoperculate, hyaline, wall apically thickened, laterally relatively thin, slightly smooth, with an apical, amyloid pore and tapered ends, J + in MLZ. Ascospores (85 / 6 / 2) 9.3–14.5 × 2.9–4.3 µm, (x = 12 × 3.6 µm, n = 86), partially biseriate, filiform, aseptate, thin-walled, hyaline, smooth with tapering towards the obtuse ends, occasionally 1–2 oil guttules, subspherical, hyaline, slightly smooth. Asexual morp h Not observed.</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>• China, Yunnan Province, Xishuangbanna City, altitude 1787 m, on the decayed unknown twig, 5 September 2022, Le Luo, ly 729 (HKAS 139494, holotype) ; ibid., ly 751 (HKAS 139495, paratype);</p><p>Notes.</p><p>Calycina xishuangbanica (HKAS 139494 and HKAS 139494) clustered with the clade comprising C. parvispora, C. papaeana and C. crassipes, with 99 % MLBP and 0.99 BPP support (Fig. 1). Calycina xishuangbanica differs from C. papaeana in having longer asci (60–90 µm vs. 38–58 µm), longer ascospores (9.3–14.5 µm vs. 4–9 µm), and pale brown to yellow receptacle and stipe, in contrast to the dark brown to black receptacle and stipe of the latter (Senanayake et al. 2023). Calycina parvispora is a saprobe found on dead plant material in Czechoslovakia and New Zealand (Nag Raj and Hughes 1974; Nag Raj and Kendrick 1975). The species was initially introduced by Nag Raj and Hughes (1974) as Chalara parvispora, which was later transferred to Calycina (Wu and Diao 2023) . Similarly, Calycina crassipes is a saprobe occurring on dead conifer wood and on the petiole of Pteridium aquilinum in Czechoslovakia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom (Nag Raj and Kendrick 1971, 1975; Holubová-Jechová 1984). The species was originally introduced as Cylindrosporium crassipes ( Ploettnerulaceae, Helotiales) and was later transferred to Calycina (Wu and Diao 2023) . Calycina parvispora and C. crassipes are only reported in their asexual morphs (Wu and Diao 2023); Calycina xishuangbanica phylogenetically differs from C. parvispora, C. papaeana, and C. crassipes based on the ITS gene region by 4.8 %, 7.1 %, and 4.1 % base pair differences, respectively. Based on the morphological characteristics along with the phylogenetic analyses, C. xishuangbanica is introduced here as a new species.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0771CB1B4C82544085D5AEA93946412D	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Luo, Le;Thilini Chethana, Kandawatte Wedaralalage;Zhao, Qi;Thiyagaraja, Vinodhini;Khongphinitbunjong, Kitiphong;Al-Otibi, Fatimah;Hyde, Kevin D.	Luo, Le, Thilini Chethana, Kandawatte Wedaralalage, Zhao, Qi, Thiyagaraja, Vinodhini, Khongphinitbunjong, Kitiphong, Al-Otibi, Fatimah, Hyde, Kevin D. (2025): Two new and one new morph record of Calycina (Pezizellaceae, Helotiales) species from Southwestern China. MycoKeys 122: 13-33, DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.122.158883
