The Spiculogloeomycetes are a class of fungi in the subdivision Pucciniomycotina of the Basidiomycota.[2] The class consists of a single order, the Spiculogloeales.[3] Which contains one family, Spiculogloeaceae Denchev, 2009,[4] which holds 2 genera; Phyllozyma (9 species) and Spiculogloea (5 species).
The DNA of the class has been analysed in 2020.[5]
Order Spiculogloeales is parasitic or saprotrophic (processing of decayed (dead or waste) organic matter) with spinulose (covered with small spines) to granulose (having a surface covered with granules), auricularoid (more or less cylindrical basidia with lateral septa wall) basidia (a spore-producing structure).[6] They also includes jelly fungi types.[7] They have a yeast state. The teleomorph is Spiculugloea and the anamorph is thought to be Sporobolomyces, (such as S. subbrunneus, S. coprosimicola and S. linderae).[3][8][9]
The genus Spiculogloea was originally provisionally placed within the Platygloeales order and Heterobasidiomycetes (former class that is now disbanded) (Roberts, 1996).[10] Later, molecular studies by Weiss et al. (2004) based on SSU and LSU sequence data indicated that an unnamed Spiculogloea sp. clustered together with an equally unnamed Mycogloea sp., forming a well-supported clade,[11] which was later referred to as the new order Spiculogloeales (Bauer et al. 2006).[3] Together with Agaricostilbales, Spiculogloeales composed the class Agaricostilbomycetes.[12][13][14] Aime et al. (2006) confirmed these relationships and added some anamorphic species of Sporobolomyces to the Spiculogloeales.[8] A recent molecular study based upon seven genes (Wang et al. 2015a) indicated that the systematic position of the Spiculogloeales was varied. Then the class Spiculogloeomycetes was proposed to accommodate the order Spiculogloeales.[1]
Order Spiculogloeales used to hold genus Mycogloea (which is now placed within the Agaricostilbales order).[15]
Species of Spiculogloea are known as mycoparasites.[16] Such as Spiculogloea minuta is reported as parasitising basidiocarps of Mycostilla vermiformis and various Tulasnella spp. in Norway.[17]
Order Spiculogloeales has a cosmopolitan distribution worldwide including various seas and oceans.[18] Including places such as Norway,[17] Japan,[19] and Colombia, South America.[20]
The Spiculogloeomycetes are a class of fungi in the subdivision Pucciniomycotina of the Basidiomycota. The class consists of a single order, the Spiculogloeales. Which contains one family, Spiculogloeaceae Denchev, 2009, which holds 2 genera; Phyllozyma (9 species) and Spiculogloea (5 species).
The DNA of the class has been analysed in 2020.
Order Spiculogloeales is parasitic or saprotrophic (processing of decayed (dead or waste) organic matter) with spinulose (covered with small spines) to granulose (having a surface covered with granules), auricularoid (more or less cylindrical basidia with lateral septa wall) basidia (a spore-producing structure). They also includes jelly fungi types. They have a yeast state. The teleomorph is Spiculugloea and the anamorph is thought to be Sporobolomyces, (such as S. subbrunneus, S. coprosimicola and S. linderae).
