Piromyces J.J. Gold et al. Monoflagellated protozoans found in the rumen were assigned to the genus Piromonas (Liebetanz 1910; Braune 1913). Orpin concluded that these flagellated cells were in fact zoospores of anaerobic fungi (Orpin 1977a). Orpin retained the generic name on the assumption that the fungi he isolated from the sheep rumen were [...]
Neocallimastix Vávra & Joyon ex I.B. Heath The genus Neocallimastix was described by Vavra and Joyon (1966). At that time, the propensity for nutritional microbiologists to work with rumen fluid and discard rumen solids meant that the solids-associated vegetative stage of the fungus was not recognized. The zoospores of the fungus evident in rumen [...]
Neocallimastix cameroonii G.W. Griff., Dollhofer, Veronika & T. Callaghan sp. nov. Index Fungorum number: IF551212; Facesoffungi number: FoF01018; Fig. 1 Etymology: In reference to the breed of sheep from which it was isolated. Holotype: ABS CaDo3a An obligately anaerobic fungus isolated from the faeces of Cameroon sheep (Ovis aries) kept atWildpark Poing (Germany). The [...]
Neocallimastigales Anaerobic fungi were formerly classified among the chytridiomycete fungi (Li et al. 1990), later designated to their own phylum Neocallimastigomycota (Hibbett et al. 2007) and subsequently summarized as Chytridiomycota for flagellate fungi (Voigt 2012). Since their recognition as Fungi by Orpin (1974), eight genera of obligately anaerobic fungi, currently classified in the class [...]
Mortierella formosana S.F.Wei, H.M. Ho & K. Voigt, sp. nov. MycoBank: MB812482; Facesoffungi number: FoF01017; Figs. 173 and 174 Etymology: Referring to Taiwan where the fungus was collected. Holotype: TNMF 28605 Colonies growing on PDA at 25 °C for 7 days reaching 9 cm in diam., white, zonnate, rosette, with abundant aerial hyphae. Sporangiophores [...]
Mortierella pisiformis H.M. Ho, S.F. Wei & K. Voigt, sp. nov. MycoBank:MB811959; Facesoffungi number: FoF01016; Figs. 1 and 2 Etymology: From the Latin pisiformis, meaning peashaped, in reference to the shape of spores. Holotype: TNMF 28604 Colonies grown on PDA at 25 °C for 7 days, reaching 9 cm in diameter, white, with abundant [...]
Mortierella Coem. The genus Mortierella Coem., the type of the order Mortierellales Caval.-Sm., was described in 1863 by Coemans and the first described species was Mortierella polycephala Coem.. The order Mortierellales is one of the largest basal fungal lineages. It is currently classified either within the subphylum Mucoromycotina (Hibbett et al. 2007) or within [...]
Gongronella Ribaldi Mucorales comprise ubiquitous, mostly saprotrophic organisms and are one of the most ancient groups of fungi. They can be easily isolated fromsoil, dung, water, stored grains, plants, as well as other fungi due to their rapid growth rate and ability to colonize and sporulate on diverse, carbohydrate-rich, terrestrial substrates (Benny 2008; O’Donnell [...]
Gongronella koreana H.B. Lee & T.T.T. Nguyen, sp. nov. MycoBank number: MB 811445; Faces of fungi number: FoF 01015; Fig. 1 Etymology: koreana. Referring to the country which from the species was first isolated (Korea, Jeonnam Province). Holotype: EML-TS2Bp was maintained permanently in a metabolically inactive state at the Environmental Microbiology Laboratory Herbarium, Chonnam [...]
Absidia koreana H.B. Lee, H.W. Lee&T.T.T. Nguyen, sp. nov. MycoBank number: MB 813805; Faces of fungi number: FoF 01015; Fig. 1 Etymology: koreana. Referring to the country which from the species was first isolated (Korea, Dokdo island). Holotype: CNUFC-EML-IFS45-1, deposited at the Environmental Microbiology Laboratory Herbarium, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea. Colony exhibits rapid [...]