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