Onygenales » Arthrodermataceae

Ctenomyces

Ctenomyces Eidam—Beitr. Biol. Pf. 3: 274, 1880;

Type species: Ctenomyces serratus Eidam. ex-neotype culture: CBS 187.61=ATCC 15504=IMI 86199=NRRL A-11176, from soil, Australia. Herb. No: CBS H-14818 (Orr and Kuehn 1963).

The genus Ctenomyces was described as having orange-brown cleistothecia, a peridium composed of a thin layer of densely interwoven hyphae, and ctenoid appendages consisting of thick-walled, asperulate cells. Conidia are verrucose, thick-walled, and lightly pigmented, commonly with ampulliform swelling (Benjamin 1956, Zhang et al. 2019). The habitat of Ctenomyces species is soil enriched with bird feathers (Currah 1985, Zhang et al. 2019); no animal pathology is known.

Retrieved from:

Kandemir H, Dukik K, de Melo Teixeira M, Stielow JB et al.  2022 –  Phylogenetic and ecological reevaluation of the order Onygenales. Fungal Diversity, 1-72. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-022-00506-z

 

References

Benjamin RK. 1956 – A new genus of Gymnoascaceae with a review of the other genera. Aliso 3(3):301–328

Currah RS. 1985 – Taxonomy of the Onygenales: Arthrodermataceae, Gymnoascaceae, Myxotrichaceae and Onygenaceae. Mycotaxon 24,1–216

Orr GF, Kuehn HH, Plunkett OA. 1963 – A new genus of the Gymnoascaceae with swollen peridial septa. Can J Bot  41,1439–1456

Zhang ZY, Han YF, Chen WH, Liang ZQ 2019 – Phylogeny and taxonomy of three new Ctenomyces (Arthrodermataceae, Onygenales) species from China. MycoKeys 47,1–16. https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.47.30740

 

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