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Aquaphila

Aquaphila Goh, K.D. Hyde & W.H. Ho

Index Fungorum number: IF 27791

 

Saprobic on submerged woody substrates, widespread in tropical regions. Mycelial colonies partly developed inside wood and partly on wood surface. Sexual morph: Ascomata superficial, gregarious, globose to subglobose, dark brown to black, with brown setae, straight, thick-walled, tapering to an acute apex. Peridium outer layer of textura angularis comprising black-walled cells, cell of inner layer, elongate, pale brown to subhyaline. Pseudoparaphyses filiform, ca. 2 mm wide, hyphae-like, branched, hyaline. Asci 8-spored, bitunicate, cylindroclavate, with long pedicels, apically rounded. Ascospores 2–3-seriate, cylindrical fusiform, 7-transverse septa, hyaline to pale brown, smooth (Tsui et al. 2007). Asexual morph: Conidiophores semi-macronematous, mononematous, borne as lateral branches from superficial hyphae, hyaline, delicate, septate, simple or branched, flexuous to geniculate. Conidiogenous cells integrated, terminal or intercalary, denticulate, monoblastic or polyblastic, proliferation sympodial, indeterminate. Conidial secession schizolytic. Conidia borne singly, acrogenous and becoming lateral as a result of conidiophore proliferation, hyaline, fusoid to falcate or sigmoid, broad, multi-euseptate, apedicellate (Goh et al. 1998).

 

Type species: Aquaphila albicans Goh, K.D. Hyde & W.H. Ho

 

Notes: Aquaphila is characterized by translucent or pale yellowish, chalky white colonies, hyaline conidiophores arising singly from the procumbent hyphae, denticulate conidiogenous cells with sympodially proliferating and fusoid to sickle-shaped conidia (Goh et al. 1998). Boonmee et al. (2014) linked Tubeufia asiana Sivichai & C.K.M. Tsui to the sexual morph of the type species A. albicans based on molecular data. Aquaphila formed a sister clade to Chlamydotubeufia Boonmee & K.D. Hyde (Lu et al. 2018). Aquaphila albicans was only found from freshwater habitats (Goh et al. 1998; Hyde et al. 2016) and confirmed with molecular data by Hyde et al. (2016). (Note from Dong et al. 2020)

 

List of freshwater Aquaphila species

Aquaphila albicans Goh, K.D. Hyde & W.H. Ho, Mycol. Res. 102(5): 588 (1998)

Freshwater distribution: Australia (Goh et al. 1998), Thailand (Hyde et al. 2016; Dong et al. 2020)

 

References

Boonmee S, Rossman AY, Liu JK, Li WJ, Dai DQ, Bhat DJ, Jones EBG, McKenzie EHC, Xu JC, Hyde KD (2014) Tubeufiales, ord. nov., integrating sexual and asexual generic names. Fungal Divers 68:239–298

Dong W, Wang B, Hyde KD, McKenzie EHC, Raja HA, Tanaka K, Abdel-Wahab MA, Abdel-Aziz FA, Doilom M, Phookamsak R, Hongsanan S, Wanasinghe DN, Yu X-D, Wang G-N, Yang H, Yang J, Thambugala KM, Tian Q, Luo Z-L, Yang J-B, Miller AN, Fournier J, Boonmee S, Hu D-M, Nalumpang S, Zhang H (2020) Freshwater Dothideomycetes. Fungal Divers 105:319–575

Goh TK, Hyde KD, Ho WH (1998) Aquaphila albicans gen. et sp. nov., a hyphomycete from submerged wood in the tropics. Mycol Res 102:587–592

Hyde KD, Hongsanan S, Jeewon R, Bhat DJ, McKenzie EHC, Jones EBG, Phookamsak R, Ariyawansa HA, Boonmee S, Zhao Q, Abdel-Aziz FA, Abdel-Wahab MA, Banmai S, Chomnunti P, Cui BK, Daranagama DA, Das K, Dayarathne MC, de Silva NI, Dissanayake AJ, Doilom M, Ekanayaka AH, Gibertoni TB, Goes-Neto A, Huang SK, Jayasiri SC, Jayawardena RS, Konta S, Lee HB, Li WJ, Lin CG, Liu JK, Lu YZ, Luo ZL, Manawasinghe IS, Manimohan P, Mapook A, Niskanen T, Norphanphoun C, Papizadeh M, Perera RH, Phukhamsakda C, Richter C, Santiago A, Drechsler-Santos ER, Senanayake IC, Tanaka K, Tennakoon T, Thambugala KM, Tian Q, Tibpromma S, Thongbai B, Vizzini A, Wanasinghe DN, Wijayawardene NN, Wu HX, Yang J, Zeng XY, Zhang H, Zhang JF, Bulgakov TS, Camporesi E, Bahkali AH, Amoozegar MA, Araujo-Neta LS, Ammirati JF, Baghela A, Bhatt RP, Bojantchev D, Buyck B, da Silva GA, de Lima CLF, de Oliveira RJV, de Souza CAF, Dai YC, Dima B, Duong TT, Ercole E, Mafalda-Freire F, Ghosh A, Hashimoto A, Kamolhan S, Kang JC, Karunarathna SC, Kirk PM, Kytovuori I, Lantieri A, Liimatainen K, Liu ZY, Liu XZ, Lucking R, Medardi G, Mortimer PE, Nguyen TTT, Promputtha I, Raj KNA, Reck MA, Lumyong S, Shahzadeh-Fazeli SA, Stadler M, Soudi MR, Su HY, Takahashi T, Tangthirasunun N, Uniyal P, Wang Y, Wen TC, Xu JC, Zhang ZK, Zhao YC, Zhou JL, Zhu L (2016) Fungal diversity notes 367–490: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to fungal taxa. Fungal Divers 80:1–270

Lu YZ, Liu JK, Hyde KD, Jeewon R, Kang JC, Fan C, Boonmee S, Bhat DJ, Luo ZL, Lin CG, Eungwanichayapant PD (2018) A taxonomic reassessment of Tubeufiales based on multi-locus phylogeny and morphology. Fungal Divers 92:131–344

Tsui CKM, Sivichai S, Rossman AY, Berbee ML (2007) Tubeufia asiana, the teleomorph of Aquaphila albicans in the Tubeufiaceae, Pleosporales, based on cultural and molecular data. Mycologia 99:884–894

 

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