Helicorhoidion
nypicola
K.D. Hyde & Goh, Mycological Research 103 (11): 1420 (1999)
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Helicorhoidion S. Hughes, Canadian Journal of Botany 36 (6): 773 (1958)
Type species:
Helicorhoidion botryoideum (Cooke) S. Hughes, Canadian Journal of Botany 36 (6): 773 (1958)
Marine species:
Helicorhoidion nypicola K.D. Hyde & Goh, Mycological Research 103 (11): 1420 (1999)
Index Fungorum Number: 460788 Faces of fungi Number:N/A
Saprobic, asexual morph: Colonies on natural substratum effuse to compact, granular, black glistening. Mycelium partly immersed and partly superficial, hyaline to pale brown, branched, septate, smooth, 3-4 µm wide. Conidiophores macronematous, unbranched or rarely branched, flexulose, pale brown, smooth, 1-4-septate, 30-70 x 2-5.4 µm wide. Conidiogenous cells integrated, indeterminate, terminal or intercalary, polydenticulate. Conidia holoblastic, solitary, dry, seceding from the denticles by schizolysis, ellipsoidal or globoid, irregularly helicoid, very tightly coiled, multiseptate, strongly constricted at the septa, smooth, medium brown, 15-20 x 12-15 µm. Sexual morph: Undetermined.
Description based on Hyde et al. 1999.
Key references:
Hyde KD, Goh TK, Lu BS, Alias SA (1999). Eleven new intertidal fungi from Nypa fruticans. Mycological Research. 103(11): 1409–1422.
Loilong A, Salayaroj J, Ringjindamain, Choeyklin R, Jones EBG (2012). Biodiversity of fungi on the palm Nypa fruticans. In: Marine and fungal–like organisms. (eds EBG Jones, KL Pang), De Gruyter, Germany, pp. 273–290.
Wijayawardene DNN, Hyde KD, Rajeshkumar KC, Hawksworth DL et al. (2017). Notes for genera: Ascomycota. Fungal Diversity 86: 1–594.