Tetraploa abortiva
Tetraploa abortiva Aramb. & Cabello
Index Fungorum number: IF 133315
Etymology: From Latin abortivus = abortive referring to the failed growth of the columns of cells.
Holotype: LPS 44308
Sexual morph: Undetermined. Asexual morph: Colonies on natural substrate scattered, punctiform. Mycelium superficial. Conidiophores micronematous, branched and anastomosing to form a network, pale yellowish brown. Conidiogenous cells integrated, terminal, monoblastic. Conidia oblong to ovoboid, brown, 25–40 μm × 13–15 μm, with 2–3 columns with six cells each, 5 um diam; basal cells thick-walled dark brown; the apical cells are thin-walled and hyaline forming a short septate appendage, 10–12 um long. (Descriptions from Arambarri et al. 1987)
Notes: Usually the conidia have three columns of cells and the fourth stops growing near the base of the conidium, has only one or two cells and when the conidia have two columns the third has failed to grow near the base.
Freshwater distribution: Argentina (Arambarri et al. 1987)
Fig 1. Tetraploa abortiva conidiophores and conidia (Arambarri et al. 1987; http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/index.htm)
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