Urnula

Urnula is a genus of cup fungi in the family Sarcosomataceae, circumscribed by Elias Magnus Fries in 1849. The genus contains several species found in Asia, Europe, Greenland, and North America.[1] Sarcosomataceae fungi produce dark-colored (brown to black), shallow to deep funnel-shaped fruitbodies with or without a stipe, growing in spring. The type species of the genus is Urnula craterium, commonly known as the devil's urn or the gray urn. Urnula species can grow as saprobes or parasites having an anamorphic state. The anamorphic form of U. craterium causes Strumella canker, on oak trees.

Urnula
The devil's urn, Urnula craterium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Ascomycota
Class:
Pezizomycetes
Order:
Pezizales
Family:
Sarcosomataceae
Genus:
Urnula

Fr. (1849)
Type species
Urnula craterium
(Schwein.) Fr. (1851)
Species

10 species

Taxonomy

Elias Magnus Fries circumscribed the new genus Urnula in 1849, and set what was then known as Peziza craterium as the type species.[2] The genus name means "little urn"; the specific epithet is derived from the Latin cratera, referring to a type of bowl used in antiquity.[3]

Description

Imperfect states

The life cycle of Urnula craterium allows for both an imperfect (making asexual spores, or conidia) or perfect (making sexual spores) form; as has often happened in fungal taxonomy, the imperfect form was given a different name, because the relationship between the perfect and imperfect forms of the same species was not then known. The imperfect stage of Urnula craterium is the plant pathogenic species Conoplea globosa, known to cause a canker disease (Strumella canker) of oak and several other hardwoods.[4][5]

Species
  • U. craterium (Schwein.) Fr. (1851)
  • U. groenlandica Dissing (1981)[6] – Greenland
  • U. helvelloides Donadini, Berthet & Astier (1973)
  • U. hiemalis Nannf. (1949)[7] – Northern Europe; Alaska[8]
  • U. mediterranea (M.Carbone, Agnello & Baglivo) M.Carbone, Agnello & P.Alvarado (2013)
  • U. mexicana
  • U. padeniana M.Carbone, Agnello, A.D.Parker & P.Alvarado (2013)[9]
  • U. philippinarum Rehm (1914)[10] – Philippines
  • U. torrendii Boud. (1911)[11] – Europe
  • U. versiformis Y.Z.Wang & C.L.Huang (2014) – Taiwan[12]
  • U. viridirubescens (Bagnis) Boud. (1907)

The European species provisionally named Urnula brachysperma by François Brunelli[13] in 1997 is not yet validly published.

Several species once classified in Urnula have since been transferred to other genera in the Sarcosomataceae or the Chorioactidaceae. Peck's 1894 Urnula geaster is now type species of the genus Chorioactis, while Urnula pouchetii Berthet & Riousset 1965 in now in Neournula (Chorioactidaceae). Urnula lusitanica, published in 1911 by Torrend and Boudier, is now Donadinia lusitanica. Urnula megalocrater Malençon & Le Gal 1958, Urnula platensis Speg. 1898, and Urnula rugosa Le Gal 1958 are now all classified in the genus Plectania.

Habitat and distribution

Urnula species can grow as saprobes or parasites having an anamorphic state. Fruitbodies of U. craterium and U. hiemalis tend to persist in one location for many growing seasons, sometimes even for several decades.[8]

References
  1. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 714. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
  2. Fries EM (1849). Summa vegetabilium Scandinaviae (in Latin). Vol. 2. Stockholm & Leipzig: A. Bonnier. p. 364.
  3. "Latin Word Lookup". University of Notre Dame. Retrieved 2009-04-05.
  4. Hughes SJ (1951). "Microfungi V. Conoplea Pers. and Exosporium Link". Canadian Journal of Botany. 38 (4): 659–96. doi:10.1139/b60-059.
  5. Pirone PP, Hartman JR, Pirone TP, Pirone TP, Sall MA (2000). Pirone's Tree Maintenance. Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press. p. 435. ISBN 0-19-511991-6.
  6. Dissing H. (1981). "Four new species of discomycetes (Pezizales) from West Greenland". Mycologia. 73 (2): 263–73. doi:10.2307/3759647. JSTOR 3759647.
  7. Nannfeldt JA (1949). "Contributions to the mycoflora of Sweden. 7. A new winter discomycete, Urnula hiemalis Nannf. n. sp., and a short account of the Swedish species of Sarcoscyphaceae". Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift. 43: 468–484.
  8. Zetter I, Kullman B (2011). "Urnula hiemalis – a rare and interesting species of the Pezizales from Estonia". Folia Cryptogamica Estonica. 48: 149–152.
  9. Carbone M, Agnello C, Parker A. "Urnula padeniana (Pezizales) sp. nov. and the type study of Bulgaria mexicana" (PDF). Ascomycete.org. 5 (1): 13–24.
  10. Rehm H. (1914). "Ascomycetes philippinenses - VI". Leaflets of Philippine Botany. 6: 2257–81.
  11. Boudier JLÉ, Torrend C (1911). "Discomycètes nouveaux de Portugal". Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France (in French). 27 (2): 127–136.
  12. Wang Y-Z, Huang C-L (December 11, 2014). "A new species of Urnula (Sarcosomataceae, Pezizales) from Taiwan". Nova Hedwigia. 101: 49–55. doi:10.1127/nova_hedwigia/2014/0233.
  13. Brunelli F. (1997). "Urnula brachysperma ad int". Bollettino del Gruppo Micologico "G. Bresadola" (in Italian). 40 (2–3): 119–122.
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