Tumidispora Hongsanan & K.D. Hyde

Tennakoon, Danushka S., Hongsanan, Sinang, De Silva, Nimali I., Suwannarach, Nakarin & Lumyong, Saisamorn, 2023, Molecular phylogeny and morphological characterization of Paramicrothyrium bambusae sp. nov. and Tumidispora thailandica sp. nov. from leaf litter, Phytotaxa 578 (1), pp. 112-124 : 118

Tumidispora Hongsanan & K.D. Hyde

Ariyawansa et al. (2015) introduced Tumidispora to include the generic type T. shoreae , which was isolated from Shorea species in Thailand. Tumidispora has brown to dark brown thyriothecia, with a prominent darkened area around the central ostiole, fissitunicate, cylindrical to cylindric-clavate, short pedicellate asci and 1–2-seriate, hyaline, 1-septate ascospores (constricted at the septum) with an apical swollen cell ( Ariyawansa et al. 2015). There is currently only the type species in this genus ( Index Fungorum 2022). In this study, we introduce T. thailandica sp. nov. from Dimocarpus longan in Thailand.