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Scopulariopsis brevicaulis

Scopulariopsis brevicaulis (Sacc.) Bainier, Bull. Soc. Mycol. France 23: 99. 1907                     

Index Fungorum number: IF154310, Facesoffungi number: FoF09619, FIGURE 6.

 

 Culture characteristics: — Colonies on PDA at 25 °C, reaching 45–55 mm in 7 days. Colonies raised, with entire margin, initially white, becoming buff and powdery to granular at maturity. Reverse is honey-colored to brownish. Hyphae are septate and hyaline 1–3.8 µm wide. Conidiophores have 1–2 vertical branches bearing groups of 2 to 4 annellophores at the apex. Conidiogenous cells 17.2 × 5.5 µm and have 4.2 µm wide annellate. Conidia globose to ovoid, 7 × 6.2 µm, apex sometimes slightly pointed and finely to coarsely roughened at maturity.

Known hosts and substrates: —  Saline soil, arable soil, plantation soils, compost, river sediments, polluted running water, cotton textile paper products, slime of paper mills, uranium mine, granite outcrop, seeds of barely, wheat, soya bean, ground nut, feathers, nests, dung and dead insects (Bainier 1907, Saccardo 1881, Domsch et al. 1993, Sandoval-Denis et al. 2013).

Known distribution: — Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, India, Israel, New Zealand, South Africa, USA (Domsch et al. 1993, Mao & Guan 2016).

Material examined: — China, Yunnan Province, Kunming City, 25.047865N, 102.721724 E, industrial waste-contaminated soil, 16 December 2019, G.C. Ren (HKAS 107658); living culture, KUMCC 20-0229.

 

 

FIGURE X. Scopulariopsis brevicaulis (HKAS107658) a. Mature colony on PDA after 4 weeks with the sporulation. b. Reverse of the colonies on PDA after 4 weeks. c. Sporulation of the colony with mycilium. d. Mature septate hyphae. e. Branched conidiophore bearing annellophores and conidia f– j. Conidiogenous cells with developing conidia. k–r. Conidia. Scale bars: d = 20 μm e, k, l = 10 μm, f–j, m–r = 5 μm

 

Retrieved from:

Yasanthika E, Wanasinghe DN, Ren GC et al. 2021 – Taxonomic and phylogenetic insights into novel Ascomycota from contaminated soils in Yunnan, China. Phytotaxa, 513(3), 203-225. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.513.3.2

 

 

References

Bainier, G. 1907 – Mycothèque de l’École de Pharmacie, XIV. Scopulariopsis (Penicillium pro parte) genre nouveau de mucédinées. Bulletin Trimestriel de la Société Mycologique de France 23, 98–105

 

Domsch KH, Gams W, Anderson TH. 1993 – Compendium of Soil Fungi. IHWVerlag Press

 

Mao J, Guan W. 2016 – Fungal degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) by Scopulariopsis brevicaulis and its application in bioremediation of PAH-contaminated soil. Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Section B–Soil and Plant Science 66, 399–405. https://doi.org/10.1080/09064710.2015.1137629

 

Sandoval-Denis M, Sutton DA, Fothergill AW, Cano-Lira J et al.  2013 – Scopulariopsis, a poorly known opportunistic fungus: spectrum of species in clinical samples and in vitro responses to antifungal drugs. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 51: 3937–3943. https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01927-13

 

 

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