Camptophora Réblová & Unter., PLoS ONE 8(5): e63547, 14 (2013)
MycoBank number: MB 803679; Index Fungorum number: IF 803679; Facesoffungi number: FoF 10332; 2 species with molecular data.
Type species: Camptophora hylomeconis (Crous, de Hoog & H.D. Shin) Réblová & Unter.
Epiphytic on the surface of leaves. Sexual morph: Undetermined. Asexual morph: Mycelium composed of branched, septate, greenish-brown hyphae. Conidiophores lacking, reduced to a conidiogenous cell. Conidiogenous cells phialidic, intercalary, hyaline, with inconspicuous collarette, or sometimes proliferating percurrently. Conidia sickle-shaped, light brown, usually 3-septate, constricted at the septa, curved, widest in middle, apex rounded, base subtruncate, with a foot cell for germination, smooth-walled, guttulate (Crous et al. 2007, Réblová et al. 2013).
Notes: Camptophora was established to accommodate Camptophora hylomeconis transferred from Cyphellophora (Crous et al. 2007, Réblová et al. 2014). The genus is characterized by phialidic, intercalary, conidiogenous cells, with an inconspicuous collarette, or sometimes proliferating percurrently, and sickle-shaped conidia (Crous et al. 2007, Réblová et al. 2014). Phylogenetically, C. hylomeconis, Aphanophora eugeniae and Fumagopsis stellae group together within Chaetothyriaceae (Réblová et al. 2013, this study (Figure 1). However, Camptophora has conspicuous phialides, with a single conidiogenous locus and sickle-shaped conidia, while A. eugeniae has inconspicuous collarettes, with aggregated loci and subcylindrical to cylindrical conidia, and it is apparently differentiated from F. stellae based on star-like conidia (Crous et al. 2007, 2018, Réblová et al. 2013).
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