Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-lj6df Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-13T03:25:52.725Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Elegantimyces sporidesmiopsis gen. et sp. nov. on submerged wood from Hong Kong

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1998

T. K. GOH ,
K. M. TSUI  and
K. D. HYDE
T. K. GOH
Affiliation:
Department of Ecology and Biodiversity, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
K. M. TSUI
Affiliation:
Department of Ecology and Biodiversity, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
K. D. HYDE
Affiliation:
Department of Ecology and Biodiversity, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
Get access

Abstract

A new dematiaceous hyphomycete, Elegantimyces sporidesmiopsis gen. et sp. nov., is described from decaying wood submerged in a stream in Hong Kong. It produces predominantly 3-septate, obclavate, versicoloured, solitary conidia at the apex of the sympodially regenerating conidiophores. The apical cell of the conidia is unique in becoming a sympodially proliferating conidiogenous cell producing an Idriella-like synanamorph. Conidial secession in this fungus is rhexolytic. Elegantimyces is compared with Sporidesmium bifasciatum, S. tropicale and S. urceolatum which also produce Idriella-like synanamorphs.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mycological Research , Volume 102 , Issue 2 , February 1998 , pp. 239 - 242
Copyright
The British Mycological Society 1998

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)