Boothiella Lodhi & Mirza

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Boothiella Lodhi & Mirza , Mycologia 54: 217 (1962)

Index Fungorum number: IF 627

Type species: Boothiella tetraspora Lodhi & Mirza, Mycologia 54: 217 (1962)

Notes: Boothiella was a monotypic genus and established by the type species B. tetraspora , which was isolated from soil in Lahore City, Pakistan. Boothiella is similar to Thielavia but differs by having a colourless ascomatal wall ( Lodhi & Mirza 1962). Eriksson et al. (2004) and Kirk et al. (2008) proposed Boothiella should be accommodated in the family Sordariaceae , and this phylogenetic placement was confirmed by other researchers later ( Vu et al. 2019, Wang et al. 2019). The sexual morph was described by having a superficial to immersed, globose to subglobose, cleistothecial ascomata, solitary to aggregated, non-ostiolate, hyaline ascomatal walled, clavate to cylindrical asci with four-spored, short pedicellate, uniseriate, evanescent. Ascospore ellipsoidal to broad ovoid, hyaline to yellow to olivaceous brown with the maturity, one-celled, with apical germ pores, however, no asexual morphs have been reported ( Huang et al. 2021). Thielaviella humicola and Thielavia tetraspora were recently re-identified as Boothiella tetraspora based on evidences of morphology and phylogeny ( Wang et al. 2019). This genus has a single species ( B. tetraspora ), and most collections were isolated from soil ( Wang et al. 2019).