Rhopalophora clavispora
Rhopalophora (from Greek ῥόπαλον (rhópalon) 'club', and -φόρος (-phóros) 'bearing') is a genus of lichen-like fungus in the family Dactylosporaceae.[1] It contains the sole species R. clavispora, previously belonging to the genus Phialophora[2] but redescribed in 2016 to compose this monotypic genus.[3]
| Rhopalophora clavispora | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Eurotiomycetes |
| Order: | Sclerococcales |
| Family: | Dactylosporaceae |
| Genus: | Rhopalophora Réblová, Unter. & W. Gams, 2016 |
| Species: | R. clavispora |
| Binomial name | |
| Rhopalophora clavispora (W. Gams) Réblová, Unter. & W. Gams, 2016 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Phialophora clavispora W. Gams, 1976 | |
Description
Members of Rhopalophora are lignicolous fungi of mycelium made of hyaline or pigmented hyphae that are occasionally monilioid. They have no conidiomata. Their conidiophores are pale brown in color, unbranched, macronematous (i.e. morphologically different from vegetative hyphae), often reduced to phialides generated directly from undifferentiated hyphae, sometimes with percurrent regeneration. Phialides are light brown in color, paler towards the tip, integrated, subcylindrical and sometimes with sympodial proliferation, tapering toward the collarette. The conidia are hyaline, aseptate, clavate, truncate at the base, and arranged in chains or heads.[3]
The sexual morph of this genus is unknown.[3]
Taxonomy
The genus Rhopalophora was described in 2016 by Martina Réblová, Wendy A. Untereiner & Walter Gams to accommodate the species R. clavispora, which was initially described in 1976 by the same Walter Gams as a member of Phialophora. The separation was due to a phylogenetic analysis revealing Phialophora clavispora to be more related to other fungal members of Sclerococcaceae than to Phialophora.[3]
References
- Wijayawardene, N.N.; Hyde, K.D.; Dai, D.Q.; Sánchez-García, M.; Goto, B.T.; Saxena, R.K.; et al. (2022). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa – 2021". Mycosphere. 13 (1): 53–453. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/13/1/2. S2CID 249054641.
- Gams W, Holubová-Jechová V (1976). "Chloridium and some other dematiaceous hyphomycetes growing on decaying wood". Studies in Mycology (13): 99.
- Réblová M, Untereiner WA, Štěpánek V, et al. (6 December 2016). "Disentangling Phialophora section Catenulatae: disposition of taxa with pigmented conidiophores and recognition of a new subclass, Sclerococcomycetidae (Eurotiomycetes)". Mycol Progress (published January 2017). 16 (1): 27–46. doi:10.1007/s11557-016-1248-y. S2CID 24930052.