pelagicum

Dictyosporium Corda, Beiträge zur gesammten Natur- und Heilwissenschaften: 87 (1836)

Type species:

Dictyosporium elegans Corda, Icones fungorum hucusque cognitorum 2: 6, t. 8:29 (1838)

Marine species:

Dictyosporium pelagicum (Linder) G.C. Hughes ex T.W. Johnson & F.K. Sparrow, 1961. Fungi in Oceans and Estuaries, Cramer, p. 391.

=Speira pelagica Linder, Farlowia, 1: 407 (1944).

= Speira littoralis Hohnk, Veroff. Inst. Meeresforsch. Bremerhaven, 3: 221 (1955).

Index Fungorum Number:                           Faceoffungi Number:

Saprobic, Asexual morph: Hyphae: 1.3-3.1 µm in diam., septate, ramose, and hyaline to fuscous. Conidiophores: 10-35 µm long, 1.5-2.5 µm in diam., simply or rarely septate, sometimes swollen at the apex, hyaline to light brown. Conidia: 12-66 x 9-28 (-36) µm, ellipsoidal, ovoid, cylindrical, clavate or cheiroid sometimes branched, multiseptate, constricted at the septa; rows of cells arising from a   single basal cell; cells initially in three, rarely two rows, then forming three to eight irregular rows; basal cells 2.5-7.5 µm high, 1.5-9.5 µm in diam.; apical cells 4-10 µm high, 3.5-8.5 µm in diam.; smooth, dark to almost black. Sexual morph: Undetermined.

Key references:

Barghoorn ES, Linder DH (1944). Marine fungi: Their taxonomy and biology. Farlowia 1: 395–467.

Boonmee S, D’souza MJ, Luo Z, Pinruan U, Tanaka K, Su H, Bhat DJ, McKenzie EHC, Jones EBG, Taylor JE, Phillips AJL, Hirayama K, Eungwanichayapant, PD, Hyde KD (2016). Dictyosporiaceae fam. nov. Fungal Diversity. 80:457–482.

Borse BD, Bhat DJ, Borse KN, Tuwas AR, Pawar NS (2012). Marine Fungi of India. Broadway Book Centre, India. 

Höhnk W (1955). Studien zur Brack– und Seewassermykologie. V. Höhere Pilze des submersen Holzes. Veröff. Inst. Meeresf. Bremerhavern 3: 199–227.

Hughes GC (1969). Marine fungi from British Columbia: occurrence and distribution of lignicolous species. Syesis 2: 419–441.

Johnson TW, Sparrow FK (1961). Fungi in oceans and estuaries. J. Cramer, Germany.

Jones EBG, Suetrong S, Sakayaroj J, Bahkali AH, Abdel–Wahab MA, Boekhout T, Pang KL (2015) Classification of marine Ascomycota, Basidiomycota, Blastocladiomycota and Chytridiomycota. Fungal Diversity 73: 1–72.

Kirschner R, Pang KL, Jones EBG (2013). Two cheirosporous hyphomycete reassessed based on morphological and molecular examination. Mycol Prog 12: 29–36. 

Key to marine species:

1. Conidia 12–66 x 9–28 (–36) μm long, initially 2–3 arms becoming 3–8 irregular arms, lacking hyaline apical cells, appearing muriform       D. pelagicum

1. Conidia 30–50 × 12–30 μm, irregularly cylindrical or oblong, strongly constricted at septa, distinct arms, not muriform                  D. oblongum