Scedosporium Sacc. ex Castell. & Chalm., Manual of tropical medicine (London): 1122 (1919)
MycoBank number: MB 9794; Index Fungorum number: IF 9794; Facesoffungi number: FoF 05201; 11 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 8 species with sequence data.
Type species – Scedosporium apiospermum Sacc. ex Castell. & Chalm.
Notes – Scedosporium is a ubiquitous filamentous genus with a wide host range and worldwide distribution (Wijayawardene et al. 2017a). The genus is characterized by hyaline, cylindrical conidiogenous cells arising from undifferentiated hyphae, with obovoidal, hyaline, sticky conidia. Graphium-like synnemata are formed with large, erect bundles of hyphae terminating in a dense aggregate of conidiogenous cells. The asexual morphs produce conidia from a short extension of the conidiogenous cells with annellidic development (Guého E. & De Hoog 1991, Lackner et al. 2014, Ramirez-Garcia et al. 2018). The genus was accepted in Microascaceae by Sandoval-Denis et al. (2016a), Maharachchikumbura et al. (2015, 2016b) and Wijayawardene et al. (2017a, 2018a).
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