Submersispora
Submersispora W. Dong, H. Zhang & K.D. Hyde, in Dong et al., Fungal Diversity: 10.1007/s13225-020-00463-5, [122] (2020).
Index Fungorum number: IF 557805; Facesoffungi number: FoF 08719, 1 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2022), 1 species with molecular data.
Saprobic on decaying, submerged wood in freshwater. Sexual morph: Unknown. Asexual morph: Colonies broadly punctiform, gregarious or scattered or solitary, raised, black. Mycelium mostly immersed in natural substratum, consisting of branched, septate, thin-walled, smooth, hyaline to pale brown hyphae. Conidiophores semi-macronematous, mononematous, cylindrical, slender, unbranched, septate, smooth, pale brown, thin-walled. Conidiogenous cells monoblastic, holoblastic, integrated, determinate, cuneiform, pale brown, smooth. Conidia acrogenous, solitary, dry, variable in shape, septate, brown to dark black, smooth, thin-walled (adapted from Dong et al. 2020).
Type species: Submersispora variabilis W. Dong, H. Zhang & K.D. Hyde
Notes: Submersispora is characterised by broadly punctiform, gregarious colonies, semi-macronematous, mononematous, cylindrical, conidiophores and acrogenous, solitary, dry conidia. In the phylogenetic analysis of Dong et al. (2020), Submersispora is phylogenetically related to Longipedicellata and Pseudoxylomyces with strong statistical support. Submersispora differs from Longipedicellata and Pseudoxylomyces in that the latter two genera have chlamydospore-like structures or chlamydospores (Goh et al. 1997, Phukhamsakda et al. 2016). Submersispora resembles Pseudoxylomyces in having holoblastic conidiogenous cells, but differs in having small, semi-macronematous conidiophores and variable shaped conidia. Submersispora is morphologically and phylogenetically a distinct genus in Longipedicellataceae. Molecular markers available for Submersispora includes ITS, LSU, SSU and TEF1.
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