Neotorula
Neotorula Ariyaw., Z.L. Luo & K.D. Hyde
Index Fungorum number: IF 551826; Facesoffungi number: FoF 01748
Saprobic on submerged wood. Sexual morph: Undetermined. Asexual morph: Colonies on the substratum superficial, effuse, gregarious, hairy, dark brown. Mycelium immersed, composed of septate, branched, thin-walled, smooth, pale brown hyphae. Conidiophores macronematous, mononematous, erect, cylindrical, usually with short branches near the apex, straight or flexuous, dark brown, septate, smooth. Conidiogenous cells tretic, with a distinct pore, integrated, terminal, doliiform or lageniform, subhyaline to pale brown. Conidia acrogenous, in branched chains, dry, clavate to subcylindrical, straight, pale green to brown, septate, verruculose, thin-walled (Su et al. 2016) (Description from Dong et al. 2020)
Type species: Neotorula aquatica Z.L. Luo & K.D. Hyde
Notes: Neotorula was introduced to accommodate a torula-like species N. aquatica collected from freshwater habitats in China (Su et al. 2016). Neotorula shares similar characters with Torula Pers. in having clavate to subcylindrical, brown conidia forming in branched chains. However, the former has macronematous and septate conidiophores, while the latter has micronematous conidiophores reduced to conidiogenous cells or with one brown supporting cell (Su et al. 2016). The placement of Neotorula was confirmed in Torulaceae based on sequence data of two freshwater species, N. aquatica and N. submersa Z.L. Luo et al. (Hyde et al. 2016; Su et al. 2016). Both species can be distinguished by the length of conidia. (Description from Dong et al. 2020)
List of freshwater Xenoastrosphaeriella species
Neotorula aquatica Z.L. Luo & K.D. Hyde, Fungal Diversity (2016)
Freshwater distribution: China (Su et al. 2016)
Neotorula submersa Z.L. Luo, H.Y. Su & K.D. Hyde, Fungal Diversity (2016)
Freshwater distribution: China (Hyde et al. 2016)
Key to freshwater Neotorula species
1. Conidia 11–16 μm long................................................................ N. aquatica
1. Conidia 16–22 μm long.............................................................. N. submersa
References
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