Hypocreales » Cordycipitaceae

Flavocillium

Flavocillium H. Yu, Y.B. Wang, Y. Wang, Q. Fan & Zhu L. Yang

Mycobank: MB 833094.

Etymology: Referring to the yellowish stromata and colonies.

Type species: Flavocillium bifurcatum H. Yu, Y.B. Wang, Y. Wang, Q. Fan & Zhu L. Yang.

Flavocillium is introduced by Wang et al. (2020) with the type species F. bifurcatum including new combinations previously treated as L. primulinum and L. subprimulinum. Flavocillium possess yellowish stromata with a furcate terminal branch, contorted fertile parts with yellowish perithecia and colonies that usually produce pastel yellow pigment, are obviously diferent from other members of the Lecanicillium lineage. In addition, the F. primulinum clade also can be distinguished from these phylogenetically related genera Engyodontium and Parengyodontium based on the morphological characteristics of the latters, both of which usually produce white colonies, conidiiferous rachids with denticles on phialides and terminal fertile regions that are zigzag-shaped (Gams et al. 1984; Tsang et al. 2016).

 

Species recorded from soil: Flavocillium primulinum, F. subprimulinum

 

References:

Gams W, de Hoog GS, Samson RA, Evans HC (1984) The hyphomycete genus Engyodontium: a link between Verticillium and Aphanocladium. Persoonia 12:135–147

Tsang CC, Chan JFW, Pong WM, Chen JHK, Ngan AHY, Cheung M, Lai CKC, Tsang DNC, Lau SKP, Woo PCY (2016) Cutaneous hyalohyphomycosis due to Parengyodontium album gen. et comb. Nov. Med Mycol 54:699–713

Wang, YB., Wang, Y., Fan, Q. et al. Multigene phylogeny of the family Cordycipitaceae (Hypocreales): new taxa and the new systematic position of the Chinese cordycipitoid fungus Paecilomyces hepiali. Fungal Diversity 103, 1–46 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-020-00457-3

 

Retrieved from:

Wang YB, Wang Y, Fan Q. et al. Multigene phylogeny of the family Cordycipitaceae (Hypocreales): new taxa and the new systematic position of the Chinese cordycipitoid fungus Paecilomyces hepiali. Fungal Diversity 103, 1–46 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-020-00457-3

 

Taxonomic classifications are updated according to

Wijayawardene NN, Hyde KD, Dai DQ, Sánchez-García M, et al. 2022 – Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa – 2021. Mycosphere 13(1), 53–453, Doi 10.5943/mycosphere/13/1/2

 

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