Emericellopsis J.F.H. Beyma, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 6: 264 (1940)

MycoBank number: MB 1773; Index Fungorum number: IF 1773; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13424; 15 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 14 species with sequence data.

Type species – Emericellopsis terricola J.F.H. Beyma

Notes – Emericellopsis species are primarily soil-derived fungi. Species of Emericellopsis have been isolated from various environments worldwide (viz. agricultural and forest soils, peat, rhizomes, prairies and freshwater-, estuarine- and marine-mud sediments, (Domsch et al. 1980). Globose asci contain 8 ascospores with light brown, ellipsoidal and wing-like appendages (Zuccaro et al. 2004). The asexual morphs have conidiophores arising from substratum or aerial hyphae, and hyaline, 1–2-guttulate, elongate-ellipsoidal conidia (Beyma 1940).

Figure 169 – Emericellopsis terricola (redrawn from Beyma 1940). a Perithecium. b Ascus. c Ascospores. d Ascospores (front view). e Hypha with conidiophores. f Conidiophores. g Conidia. Scale bars: a = 50 µm, b-d, g = 5 µm.

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