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Vaginatispora aquatica

Vaginatispora aquatica K.D. Hyde, Nova Hedwigia 61(1-2): 235 (1995).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 414352; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11587, Fig. 1

Description: see Thambugala et al. (2015).

Material examined: see Thambugala et al. (2015).

Fig. 1 Vaginatispora spp. (a–i Vaginatispora aquatica) (MFLU 19–0994, holotype).  a Appearance of ascomata on wood. b Sections of ascomata. c Peridium. d Pseudoparaphyses e, f Asci. g, h, i Ascospores. j–r V. fuckelii (HHUF 27325).  j Appearance of ascomata on wood. k Sections of ascomata. l Peridium m Pseudoparaphyses n, o Asci. p-r Ascospores. Scale bars: b = 200 μm, c = 50 μm, d, g, h = 20 μm, e, f = 30 μm i, k = 50 μm, l, n–r = 10 μm, m = 5 μm.

Importance and distribution

Industrial relevance and applications

Vaginatispora is useful for pharmaceutical industry as V. aquatica produces antibacterial polyketide Oxasetin (He et al. 2002). There are nine Vaginatispora epithets in Index Fungorum (2022) but V. fuckelii has been transferred to Neovaginatispora. Vaginatispora comprises eight species known on four host plants Aegiceras corniculatum (Primulaceae), Amygdalus persica (Rosaceae), Nypa fruticans (Arecaceae) and Rhizophora mucronata (Rhizophoraceae). Vaginatispora is distributed in Asia (Andaman Island, India (Tamil Nadu), Japan, Thailand) and Australia.

 

References

He H, Janso JE, Yang HY, Singh MP, Bernan VS, Greenstein M, Carter GT. 2002 – Oxasetin, a new antibacterial polyketide produced by fungus Vaginatispora aquatica, HK1821. The Journal of Antibiotics (Tokyo) 55, 821–5. doi: 10.7164/antibiotics.55.821.

Thambugala KM, Hyde KD, Tanaka K, Tian Q et al. 2015 – Towards a natural classification and backbone tree for Lophiostomataceae, Floricolaceae, and Amorosiaceae fam.nov. Fungal Diversity 74, 199–266.

Zhang H, Hyde KD, Zhao Y, McKenzie EH, Zhou D. 2014 – Freshwater ascomycetes: Lophiostoma vaginatispora comb. nov. (Dothideomycetes, Pleosporales, Lophiostomaceae) based on morphological and molecular data. Phytotaxa 176, 184–191.

 

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