Chromelosporiopsis Hennebert
MycoBank number: MB 835622; Index Fungorum number: IF 835622; Facesoffungi number: FoF14395
Differs from Chromelosporium by its synnematous conidiophores and irregular successive bifurcate branching.
Type species: Chromelosporiopsis carnea (Schumach.) Hennebert Etymology: Chromelosporium + –opsis, similar to.
Ascomycota, Pezizaceae, sexual morph unknown. Hyphae septate, branched and anastomosed, fasciculating in synnemata, forming defined or effuse cushions, diversely colored (white, ochre, yellow, rose, flesh red, blue, or violet).
Conidiophores synnematous, laterally and/or apically branching in irregular successive dichotomies called here a coralloid pattern, sparsely septate, apically slightly inflated. Conidiogenus cells subterminal and terminal branches forming synchronously along their lengths holoblastic conidia, each on a denticle; secession rhexolytic. Conidia one-celled, globose or subglobose, with thick ornamented (finely to coarsely verrucose) wall, colored in mass. seceding rhexolytically. HABITAT: on organic soil.
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