Genus

Kondoa

Species

malvinella

Author

(Fell & I.L. Hunter) Y. Yamada, Nakagawa & I. Banno, Journal of General and Applied Microbiology Tokyo 35 (5): 384 (1989)

Class

Agaricostilbomycetes, Subclass Agaricostilbomycetidae

Order

Agaricostilbales

Family

Kondoaceae

Synonymy: Rhodosporidium malvinellum

Description

Kondoa Y. Yamada, Nakagawa & I. Banno, Journal of General and Applied Microbiology Tokyo 35 (5): 383 (1989)

Type species:

Kondoa malvinella (Fell & I.L. Hunter) Y. Yamada, Nakagawa & I. Banno, Journal of General and Applied Microbiology Tokyo 35 (5): 384 (1989)

≡ Rhodosporidium malvinellum Fell & I.L. Hunter, Yeasts with heterobasidiomycetous life cycles: 59 (1970)

Index Fungorum number: 135434 Faceoffungi number: N/A

Genus belongs to Kondoaceae. Colonies are ivory white to mauve. Cells are globose, ovoid to cylindrical, reproducing by multilateral budding. Pseudomycelium is present. True mycelium is produced from 2 cells by copulation. Clamp connections are present. Single teliospores are attached to hyphae by short stalks. Metabasidia arise by germination of teliospores and consist of 2 cells, on which basidiospores are produced terminally and laterally. Fermentation is absent. Psychrophile. Diazonium blue B test is positive. Xylose is absent in cells. Coenzyme Q-9 system is present.

Key references:

Bauer R, Begerow D, Sampaio JP, Weiss M, Oberwinkler F (2006.) The simple-septate basidiomycetes: a synopsis. Mycological Progress. 5(1):41–66.

Fonseca Á, Sampaio JP, Inácio J, Fell JW (2000). Emendation of the basidiomycetous yeast genus Kondoa and the description of Kondoa aeria sp. nov. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 77:293–302.

Wang QM, Groenewald M, Takashima M, Theelen B, Han PJ, Liu XZ, Boekhout T, Bai FY 2016). Phylogeny of yeasts and related filamentous fungi within Pucciniomycotina determined from multigene sequence analyses, Studies Mycology 81: 27–53.

Yamada Y, Nakagawa Y, Banno I (1989). The phylogenetic relationship of the Q9–equipped species of the heterobasidiomycetous yeast genera Rhodosporidium and Leucosporidium based on the partial sequences of 18S and 26S ribosomal ribonucleic acids: the proposal of a new genus Kondoa. Journal of General and Applied Microbiology Tokyo. 35(5):377–385.

Marine species of Konda:

Kondoa aeria Á. Fonseca, J.P. Samp. & Fell, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 77: 295 (2000)

Kondoa malvinella (Fell & I.L. Hunter) Y. Yamada, Nakagawa & I. Banno, Journal of General and Applied Microbiology Tokyo 35 (5): 384 (1989)

Type & Location:

Other Specimens:

Substratum:

Isolated from seawater, seagrasses, marine animals.

Habitat:

Distribution:

Japan, New Zeland.

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Comments:

NOTES: A molecular study of selected Rhodosporidium and Leucosporidium strains based on the partial sequences of 18S and 26S, showed that Rh. malvinellum did not group with the type species of the genus and a new genus was introduced Konodoa (Yamada et al. 1989). Circa nine species are known accepted in the genus of which two have been recovered from seawater habitats (Kondoa malvinella xxxx) In a study of septate basidiomycetes, Bauer et al. (2006) showed that in an LSU tree Kondoa formed a well–supported subgroup with some Bensingtonia species, an introduced the family Kondoaceae. Within the Agaricostilbales with phragmobasidia only Kondoa are ballistosporic (Fonseca et al. 2000). The placement of Kondoa malvinella in the Agaricostilbales is supported in a more detailed study by Wang et al. (2016).

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