Kathistaceae
Creators: name: Wilson, Megan M.
name: Emam, Amany
name: Davis, Steven R.
name: Hall, Gene
name: Barden, Phillip
name: Ware, Jessica L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Sordariomycetes
Ophiostomatales
Kathistaceae

description: Diagnostic key for the Kathistaceae
1. Sexual morph present with sporodiomata ...................................................................................................................................... 10
- Asexual morph present with sporodochium ..................................................................................................................................... 2
2. The production of microconidia and macroconidia appendages ................................................................................ T. cavernosum
- Microconidia produced at conidiogenous locus................................................................................................................................3.
3. Phialide tips echinulate and pigmented ........................................................................................................................... T. coronata
- Phialide tips flat and unpigmented .................................................................................................................................................. 4.
4. Phialides greater than 160 μm in length ................................................................................................................... T. longiphialidis
- Phialides less than 120 μm in length ............................................................................................................................................... 5.
5. Conidia are large; dimensions ~ 8 μm × 4 μm ............................................................................................................ T. macrospora
- Conidia are small; dimensions ~4 μm × 2 μm ................................................................................................................................ 6.
6. Large rhomboid or ellipsoid sporodochia; 5–6 mm in diameter .............................................................................. T. rhombicarpa
- Circular or ellipsoid sporodochia; less than 1 mm in diameter ....................................................................................................... 7.
7. Maximum of 5 conidia per collarette ................................................................................................................................. T. snyderi
- Minimum of 8 conidia per collarette ............................................................................................................................................... 8.
8. Phialides tips exposed at surface of sporodochium and terminate in flaps; phialides are fertile and not arranged into compartments .......................................................................................................................................... T. hexasporodochia sp. nov.
- Phialide tips covered at surface of sporodochium by superficial epihymenium; phialides arranged into sterile and fertile compartments .................................................................................................................................................................................. 9.
9. Sporodochia exhibit a beak-like pycnidium and ostiole and are ellipsoid in shape; conidiogenous locus ~15 μm from base .......... .......................................................................................................................................................................................... M. crustosa
- Sporodochia lack pycnidia and ostiole; sporodochia are stellate or ellipsoid in shape; conidiogenous locus ~ 50 μm from base ..... ........................................................................................................................................................................................... M. silvestri
10. 4 ascospores produced in ascus ........................................................................................................................... Kathistes fimbriata
- 8 ascospores produced in ascus ........................................................................................................................................................11
11. Ascospores develop with 3 septa........................................................................................................................ Kathistes calyculata
- Ascospores develop with 5 septa ................................................................................................................ Kathistes analemmoides
description: Published as part of Wilson, Megan M., Emam, Amany, Davis, Steven R., Hall, Gene, Barden, Phillip & Ware, Jessica L., 2023, Description of a novel termite ectoparasite, Termitaria hexasporodochia sp. nov. (Kathistaceae), presenting an unusual six-sectioned infestation, and a key to the fungal family Kathistaceae, pp. 106-124 in Phytotaxa 591 (2) on page 124, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.591.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/7797494