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Mollisia (Fr.) P. Karst. 1871
Mollisia (Fr.) P. Karst. 1871

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New Zealand
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(Fr.) P. Karst.
Fr.
P. Karst.
1871
15, 189
conserved
ICN
Mollisia (Fr.) P. Karst. 1871
genus
Mollisia

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Mollisia

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Mollisia (Fr.) P. Karst. 1871

ITS gene tree of the 50 or so New Zealand Mollisia and Mollisia-like species for which there are cultures, comparing them with Joey Tanney (2016) Phialocephala specimens, Brian Douglas (2013, PhD thesis), and Genbank BLAST matches to accessions from type specimens. UNITE Species Hypothesis matches are noted. Morphology has barely been compared, but in the case of NZ Species 31 morphology does not support the ITS-based genetic match. Any matches need confirming with a more discriminatory gene; RPB1 has been used by Tanney and others. Generic limits remain poorly resolved.

Data in Geneious Dan Discos\28 Sept 2017\Mollisia

'Mollisia' in the sense discussed here includes most of the New Zealand specimens having a sexual fruiting body with a Dermateaceae morphology in the sense of Korf (excipulum of more or less globose cells, usually with dark walls) that have an ITS sequence available, in morphologically defined genera such as Mollisia, Pyrenopeziza, Niptera, and Tapesia. Also included are the (as yet unpublished) sequences from the Mollisia PhD thesis of Brian Douglas, the Phialocephala sequences from Joey Tanney (Mycologia, 2016), and sequences that represent type specimens from Genbank BLAST search results based on the New Zealand sequences.

Included in the phylogeny on the basis of genetic similarity are a range of Leotiomycetes with reduced ascomata (e.g. Loramyces), several genera based on asexual morphologies (e.g. Barrenia, Acephala, Fuscosclera and Phialocephala, in addition to the genus Vibrissea. Genetically robust generic limits amongst these fungi remain to be resolved.

Some specimens with a more or less Mollisia-like morphology are genetically distinct. For example, D1091, D818, D770, in UNITE Species Hypothesis SH021623.07FU and genetically close to fungi with an aquatic hyphomycete like morphology such as Helicodendron, Filosporella, Tricladium, etc.

Mollisia (Fr.) P. Karst. 1871

See Manaaki Whenua datastore https://doi.org/10.7931/tdhv-aj12, and 'Mollisia sensu lato diversity in New Zealand'

Mollisia (Fr.) P. Karst. 1871

Phialocephala s.l. is still currently polyphyletic, both by including distantly related species and by occurrence in numerous closely related clades intermixed with species named in other genera, some of which have nomenclatural priority (e.g. Cystodendron, Mollisia, Trimmatostroma). Based on ITS sequences Grünig et al. (2002) showed that Ph. fusca, Ph. humicola (= Ph. xalapensis) and Ph. virens are outside the main Phialocephala clade. ITS BLAST queries suggest the placement of Ph. fusca and Ph. humicola in the Chaetosphaeriaceae. Morphological and phylogenetic evidence also reveal that Ph. trigonospora is not congeneric with Ph. dimorphospora and most likely belongs to Verticicladiella (Grünig et al. 2009). Acephala, a genus with two described species belonging to the PAC, is congeneric with Phialocephala and differentiated only by the lack of observed sporulation in culture (Grünig and Sieber 2005), a taxonomic choice enabled by some interpretations of dual nomenclature but now unacceptable after recent changes to the Code. Although the core clade of Phialocephala s.s. clearly defined as the Phialocephala dimorphospora clade, the presence of Mollisia cinerea-like teleomorphs in this clade cast at least some doubt on its nomenclatural priority over Mollisia until this species and the genus are epitypified (an ongoing project; A. Gminder pers comm). The apparent phylogenetic affinity of the PAC and allied taxa to Vibrissea in most phylogenies is also a major taxonomic issue that requires resolution. is further evident that Phialocephala s.s. remains to be comprehensively circumscribed, awaiting reassignment of phylogenetically closely related and unrelated Phialocephala species, and the formal transfer of species currently congeneric with Phialocephala s.s. (e.g. in Acephala and Mollisia), to stable and monophyletic genus concepts. If Ph. dimorphospora is indeed congeneric with M. cinerea, then nomenclatural decisions will have to consider the interests of users of these names and the independent taxonomic histories of these genera. A principle of the Code is priority of publication. Mollisia, described by Karsten in 1871, clearly has priority over Phialocephala (1961). Unfortunately Mollisia is not yet robustly circumscribed and the prevailing concept is broad, polyphyletic and paraphyletic (Crous et al. 2003, Grünig et al. 2009). A definitive nomenclatural conclusion requires at least a preliminary phylogenetic investigation of Mollisia. Based on Index Fungorum, 603 names have been applied to Mollisia. The number of accepted Mollisia species after excluding synonymized taxa and subspecific identifiers is 231, excluding species of other genera that are probably congeneric or that already appear to overlap phylogenetically, such as Belonopsis, Haglundia, Nimbomollisia, Pyrenopeziza and Tapesia. Only seven Mollisia species are represented in GenBank, including only one representing an ex-type strain, M. dextrinospora (better placed in Pyrenopeziza, B. Douglas unpubl).

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Mollisia (Fr.) P. Karst. 1871
Australia
Mollisia (Fr.) P. Karst. 1871
New Zealand
Auckland
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New Zealand
Auckland Islands
Mollisia (Fr.) P. Karst. 1871
New Zealand
Bay of Plenty
Mollisia (Fr.) P. Karst. 1871
New Zealand
Buller
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New Zealand
Campbell Island
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New Zealand
Chatham Islands
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New Zealand
Coromandel
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New Zealand
Dunedin
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New Zealand
Fiordland
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New Zealand
Gisborne
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New Zealand
Kaikoura
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New Zealand
Mid Canterbury
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New Zealand
Nelson
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New Zealand
North Canterbury
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New Zealand
Northland
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New Zealand
Otago Lakes
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New Zealand
Southland
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New Zealand
Stewart Island
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New Zealand
Taranaki
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New Zealand
Taupo
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New Zealand
Waikato
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New Zealand
Wanganui
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New Zealand
Wellington
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New Zealand
Westland
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United Kingdom

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taxonomic status
"Mollisia is not yet robustly circumscribed and the prevailing concept is broad, polyphyletic and paraphyletic"

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1cb193e8-36b9-11d5-9548-00d0592d548c
scientific name
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1 January 2001
14 June 2019
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