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Melanodevriesia melanelixiae

Melanodevriesia melanelixiae H.L. Si, W.Q. Cao & T. Bose, in Chang et al., Fungal Systematics and Evolution 9: 4 (2022).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 840429; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11078,    Fig. 1

Description: see Chang et al. (2022).

Material considered: see Chang et al. (2022).

Fig. 1 Melanodevriesia melanelixiae (ex-type CGMCC 3.20309, re-drawn from Fig. 2 in Chang et al. 2022). Microscopic structure of 14-d-old culture growing on PDA medium with yeast-like unicellular morph forming pseudo hyphae through budding. Scale bar = 10 μm.

 

Importance and distribution

Melanodevriesia comprises only one species known on medullary tissue of Melanelixia subargentifera (Parmeliaceae) in China (Nei Mongol). It forms a symbiotic relationship with lichen thalli and is referred to as a ‘black yeast’ (Chang et al. 2022). The ecological role of this fungus is unknown (Nash 2008). It has been suggested that Melanodevriesia might produce a variety of compounds which allows it to survive extreme conditions (Moreno et al. 2018).

 

References

Chang R, Cao W, Wang Y, Li S, Li X, Bose T, Si HL. 2022 – Melanodevriesia, a new genus of endolichenic oleaginous black yeast recovered from the Inner Mongolia Region of China. Fungal Systematics and Evolution 9, 1–9.

Crous PW, Schumacher RK, Akulov A et al. 2019 – New and interesting fungi. 2. Fungal Systematics and Evolution 3, 57–134.

Moreno LF, Vicente VA, de Hoog S. 2018 – Black yeasts in the omics era: Achievements and challenges. Medical Mycology 56, S32–S41.

 

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