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The genus Cladosporium and similar dematiaceous ... - CBS - KNAW

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Schubert et al.<br />

Fig. 36. <strong>Cladosporium</strong> spinulosum (CPC 12040). A. Overview on agar surface with conidiophores arising from the surface. <strong>The</strong> spore clusters on the conidiophore are very<br />

compact. Note several simple, tubular conidiophore ends. <strong>The</strong> inset shows details of a conidium showing two pronounced hila <strong>and</strong> a unique, very distinct ornamentation on the<br />

cell wall. B. Conidiophore with globose or subsphaerical secondary ramoconidia <strong>and</strong> conidia. Note the newly forming cells <strong>and</strong> hila. C. Two conidiophores. D. Details of spores<br />

<strong>and</strong> spore formation. E. <strong>The</strong> end of a conidiophore <strong>and</strong> two scars. Scale bars: A = 20 µm, A (inset) = 1 µm, B, D–E = 5 µm, C = 10 µm.<br />

prominent exudates. Colonies on OA attaining 18 mm diam after 14<br />

d at 25 ºC, olivaceous, white to pale olivaceous-grey in the centre<br />

due to abundant aerial mycelium, olivaceous-grey reverse, margin<br />

white, entire edge, glabrous, aerial mycelium loose to dense, high,<br />

fluffy to felty, growth flat to low convex, regular, without prominent<br />

exudates, sporulating.<br />

Specimen examined: New Zeal<strong>and</strong>, Te Anau, isolated from leaves of Fuchsia<br />

excorticata (Onagraceae), 31 Jan. 2005, A. Blouin, Hill 1134A, <strong>CBS</strong>-H 19863,<br />

holotype, culture ex-type <strong>CBS</strong> 121629 = CPC 11839 = ICMP 15819.<br />

Substrate <strong>and</strong> distribution: On living leaves of Fuchsia excorticata;<br />

New Zeal<strong>and</strong>.<br />

Notes: This new species is well characterised by its slightly to<br />

distinctly geniculate-sinuous, often zigzag-like conidiophores <strong>and</strong><br />

its conidia formed solitary or rarely in short unbranched chains <strong>and</strong><br />

is therefore morphologically not comparable with any of the species<br />

described until now. Most <strong>Cladosporium</strong> species with conidia usually<br />

formed solitary or in short unbranched chains have previously<br />

been treated as species of the <strong>genus</strong> Heterosporium Klotzsch ex<br />

Cooke, now considered to be synonymous with <strong>Cladosporium</strong>. All<br />

of them, including the newly introduced C. arthropodii K. Schub.<br />

& C.F. Hill from New Zeal<strong>and</strong>, which also belongs to this species<br />

complex (Braun et al. 2006), possess very large <strong>and</strong> wide, often<br />

pluriseptate conidia quite distinct from those of C. sinuosum (David<br />

1997). <strong>Cladosporium</strong> alopecuri (Ellis & Everh.) U. Braun, known<br />

from the U.S.A. on Alopecurus geniculatus is also quite different by<br />

having larger <strong>and</strong> wider conidia, 20–40 × 7–13(–15) µm, <strong>and</strong> wider<br />

conidiogenous loci <strong>and</strong> conidial hila, 3.5–5 µm diam (Braun 2000).<br />

<strong>Cladosporium</strong> herbarum is superficially <strong>similar</strong> but the<br />

conidiophores of the latter species are sometimes only slightly<br />

geniculate-sinuous but never zigzag-like <strong>and</strong> the verruculose to<br />

verrucose conidia are frequently formed in unbranched or branched<br />

chains.<br />

<strong>Cladosporium</strong> spinulosum Zalar, de Hoog & Gunde-Cimerman,<br />

Studies in Mycology 58: 180. 2007 – this volume. Fig. 36.<br />

Note: This new species is described <strong>and</strong> illustrated in Zalar et al.<br />

(2007 – this volume).<br />

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