Ovicuculispora Etayo, Bull. Soc.

Darmostuk, V., Etayo, J., Rodriguez-Flakus, P., Kukwa, M., Pino-Bodas, R., Pérez-Ortega, S. & Flakus, A., 2025, A novel, exclusively lichen-inhabiting lineage of hypocrealean fungi revealed in the Sordariomycetes, Persoonia 54 (1), pp. 47-91 : 72

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3114/persoonia.2025.54.02
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16877715
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scientific name	Ovicuculispora Etayo, Bull. Soc.
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Ovicuculispora Etayo, Bull. Soc. View in CoL View at ENA linn. Provence 61: 110. 2010. MycoBank MB 565893.

Type species: Ovicuculispora parmeliae (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Etayo

Ascomata perithecioid, superficial, single to rarely in groups of 2–5, globose to subglobose at first, collapsing and becoming cupulate when dry, pinkish to orange, the lower part covered by frequently dense white mycelium. Ascomatal wall composed of 5–7 layers of radially compressed pseudoparenchymatous thick-walled cells, KOH–. Interascal filaments absent. Asci unitunicate, subcylindrical to clavate, with 1–2 smooth to ornamentated macrospores and 4–5 verruculous microspores. Ascospores two types, macrospores and microspores, 1-septate, ellipsoid, hyaline. Conidiomata unknown.

Notes: The genus Ovicuculispora is characterized by a unique feature in the order Hypocreales , the presence of two types of ascospores in the same ascus, i.e. macrospores and microspores. The genus comprises two species, Ovicuculispora macrospora and O. parmeliae (generic type).