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

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<strong>Cladosporium</strong> herbarum species complex<br />

or irregularly echinulate, walls unthickened or slightly thickened,<br />

apex rounded or slightly attenuated towards apex <strong>and</strong> base, hila<br />

conspicuous, protuberant, denticulate, 0.5–2 µm diam, thickened<br />

<strong>and</strong> darkened-refractive; microcyclic conidiogenesis observed.<br />

Cultural characteristics: Colonies on PDA attaining 29 mm diam<br />

after 14 d at 25 ºC, olivaceous-black to olivaceous-grey towards<br />

margin, margin regular, entire edge, narrow, colourless to white,<br />

glabrous to feathery, aerial mycelium formed, fluffy, mainly near<br />

margins, growth flat, somewhat folded in the colony centre, deep<br />

into the agar, few prominent exudates formed with age, sporulation<br />

profuse. Colonies on MEA attaining 25 mm diam after 14 d at 25<br />

ºC, olivaceous-grey to olivaceous due to abundant sporulation<br />

in the colony centre, pale greenish grey towards margin, irongrey<br />

reverse, velvety to powdery, margin crenate, narrow, white,<br />

glabrous, radially furrowed, aerial mycelium diffuse, growth convex<br />

with papillate surface, wrinkled colony centre, without prominent<br />

exudates, sporulation profuse. Colonies on OA attaining 26 mm<br />

diam after 14 d at 25 ºC, olivaceous, iron-grey to greenish black<br />

reverse, growth flat, deep into the agar, with a single exudate,<br />

abundantly sporulating.<br />

Specimen examined: Slovenia, Sečovlje, isolated from hypersaline water from<br />

crystallization ponds, salterns, 2005, S. Sonjak, <strong>CBS</strong>-H 19864, holotype, isotype<br />

HAL 2027 F, culture ex-type <strong>CBS</strong> 121630 = CPC 12041 = EXF-343.<br />

Substrate <strong>and</strong> distribution: Hypersaline water; Slovenia.<br />

Notes: <strong>Cladosporium</strong> subinflatum, an additional saprobic species<br />

isolated from hypersaline water, was at first identified as C.<br />

spinulosum, but proved to be both morphologically as well as<br />

phylogenetically distinct from the latter species in having somewhat<br />

wider [(1.5–)2.5–4.5(–5.5) µm], nodulose macronematous<br />

conidiophores with conidiogenous loci confined to swellings, wider<br />

conidiogenous loci <strong>and</strong> hila, (0.8–)1–2 µm, <strong>and</strong> spiny conidia<br />

with shorter spines than in C. spinulosum (up to 0.8 µm versus<br />

0.5–1.3 µm long) (Zalar et al. 2007). With its narrow, nodulose<br />

macronematous conidiophores <strong>and</strong> catenate conidia, C. bruhnei<br />

is morphologically also <strong>similar</strong> but differs by having conidiophores<br />

with wider swellings, (4–)5–8 µm, <strong>and</strong> longer conidia 4–24(–31)<br />

µm, rarely up to 40 µm long which are minutely verruculose to<br />

verrucose but not spiny.<br />

Fig. 40. <strong>Cladosporium</strong> subtilissimum (<strong>CBS</strong> 113754). Macro- <strong>and</strong> micronematous conidiophores <strong>and</strong> conidia. Scale bar = 10 µm. K. Schubert del.<br />

www.studiesinmycology.org<br />

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