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Subbaromyces

Subbaromyces Hesselt
Index Fungorum number: IF5303

 

Sexual morph: Ascomata partially submerged, later superficial, membranous, syringe-shaped, beak divided into two portions by a large pronounced collar, with upper portion tapering to a small ostiole, surrounded by a fringe of hyphae. Paraphyses absent. Asci 8-spored, unitunicate, clavate, with autodigestible wall. Ascospores 2-celled, with cells of equal size, hyaline, surrounded by a gelatinous envelope, released as a mucus-like droplet at tip of perithecium. Asexual morph: Conidiophores branched, septate. Conidia hyaline, smooth-walled, asepate, exogenously formed, ellipsoid.

 

Notes: Subbaromyces splendens was repeatedly found growing on trickling filter beds in New York. Hesseltine (1953) reported both the sexual and asexual morphs. The genus is characterised by ascomata with ostiolar necks and 1-septate ascospores surrounded by a sheath. The asexual morph has micronematous conidiophores, with non-apically branching structures and solitary, holoblastic, oblong-elliptical to obovate conidia.

 

Type species: Subbaromyces splendens Hesselt.,Bull. Torrey bot. Club 80: 511 (1953)

 

Other species:

Subbaromyces aquaticus Manohar. & P. R. Rao

 

References:

Hyde KD, Norphanphoun C, Maharachchikumbura SSN, Bhat DJ et al. (2020) Refined families of Sordariomycetes. Mycosphere 11, 305–1059

Hesseltine CW. (1953) Study of trickling filter fungi. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 80, 507–514.

Luo ZL, Hyde KD, Liu JK, Maharachchikumbura SSN et al. (2019) Freshwater Sordariomycetes. Fungal Diversity 99, 451–660

 

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