Genus

Zopfiella

Species

latipes

Author

(N. Lundq.) Maloch & Cain, 1971. Can. J. Bot., 49: 876

Class

Sordariomycetes, Subclass Sordariomycetidae

Order

Sordariales

Family

Lasiosphaeriaceae

Synonymy:

Zopfiella G. Winter, Rabenhorst's Kryptogamen-Flora, Pilze - Ascomyceten 1(2): 56 (1884)

Type species: Zopfiella tabulata (Zopf) G. Winter, Rabenhorst's Kryptogamen-Flora, Pilze - Ascomyceten 1(2): 56 (1884)

Marine species:

Zopfiella latipes (N. Lundq.) Maloch & Cain, 1971. Can. J. Bot., 49: 876. 

Sexual morph: saprobic, Ascomata: 120-700 µm in diam., globose to subglobose, superficial or immersed, nonostiolate, coriaceous, irregularly dehiscing, dark brown, covered with hyaline to grayish- or yellowish-brown, septate, branched hairs, 1.5-4 µm in diam.; solitary. Peridium: 40-50 µm thick, semi-transparent, composed of 3 or 4 layers of irregular or angular, thin-walled cells of 5-12 µm in diam., forming a textura angularis. Paraphyses:  up to 12 µm in diam., composed of vesicular cells, early deliquescing. Asci: 80-120 x 12-18 µm, 8-spored, clavate, broadest in the middle, short pedunculate, apicallty truncate, unitunicate, deliquescing, with a simple apical ring, 2.1 µm wide; fasciculate. Ascospores: biseriate, ellipsoidal, becoming 1-septate in the lower third; slightly constricted at the septum; larger upper cell 16-22(-25) x 10-13(-15) µm, ellipsoidal, apex conical or abonate, base truncate, olivaceous to brown, thin-walled, smooth, with a apical germ pore, 1 µm in diam.; smaller lower cell 4-8(-9) µm long, 3.5-7 µm in diam., broadly cylindrical, apex truncate, base broadly rounded, hyaline, at maturity without cytoplasm; the base and one side of the lower cell thin-walled, collapsing, and giving it a cuplike shape; collapsed lower cell appearing triangular in lateral view. Asexual morph: Undetermined (Description: Based on Kohlmeyer & Kohlmeyer (1979)).

 

Key references:

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

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.

Maria GL, Sridhar KR (2004) Fungal colonization of immersed wood in mangroves of the Southwest coast of India. Canadian Journal of Botany 82: 1409-1418.

Maria GL, Sridhar KR, Raviraja NS (2005) Antimicrobial and enzyme activity of mangrove endophytic fungi of southwest coast of India. Journal of Agricultural Technology 1(1): 67-80.

Nambiar GR, Raveendran K (2009) A Checklist of marine fungi from Kerala State, India. American-Eurasian Journal of Botany, 2(2): 57-61.

 

Key to marine Zopfiella species:

  1. Ascospores with subapical germ pore, upper cell 16-22(-25) x 10-13(-15) µm, olivaceous to brown; basal cell 4-8(-9) x 3.5-7 mm, hyaline............................................................................................................................................................................z. latipes
  1. Ascospores with apical germ pore, upper cell 14-20 x 10-14 µm, olivaceous to dark brown, basal cell up to 4 mm diam., hyaline........................................................................................................................................................................... Z. marina

 

 

 

 

Type & Location:
Other Specimens:
Substratum:
saprobic, on intertidal and mangrove wood (deep sea), seagrass leaves, dead marsh grass.
Habitat:
Distribution:
Hong Kong, India, Japan, Thailand.
Pertinent Literature:
Comments:
NOTES: A genus accepted in Jones et la. (2015). Two Zopfiella species have been collected in marine habitats, with Z. latipes the most frequently listed. Widely reported from India (see Borse et al. 2012), and collected on intertidal wood and mangrove wood (Avicennia alba, A. marina, Avicennia officinalis, Brugueiria gymnorrhiza, and Sonneratia caseolaris (Maria & Sridhar 2003, 2004, Nambiar & Raveendran 2009).

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