Fungalpedia – Note 3279, Aphelidiomycetes
Aphelidiomycetes Tedersoo, Sánchez-Ramírez, Kõljalg, Bahram, Döring, Schigel, T. May, M. Ryberg & Abarenkov, Fungal Diversity 90: 147 (2018).
Citation when using this data: Wijayawardene NN et al. 2024 – Fungalpedia.
Index Fungorum, Faceoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1.
The class description is similar to the description of the phylum.
Type order: Aphelidiales Tedersoo, Sánchez-Ramírez, Kõljalg, Bahram, Döring, Schigel, T. May, M. Ryberg & Abarenkov 2018.
Type family: Aphelidiaceae Tedersoo, Sánchez-Ramírez, Kõljalg, Bahram, Döring, Schigel, T. May, M. Ryberg & Abarenkov, Fungal Diversity 90: 147 (2018).
Type genus: Aphelidium Zopf, Encyklop. Naturwiss. (Breslae): 30 (1885).
Type species: Aphelidium deformans Zopf, Encyklop. Naturwiss. (Breslae): 30 (1885).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Aphelidiomycetes.
Figure 1 – Light microscopic images of three stages of life cycle of Aphelidium spp. life cycle. Modified after: Karpov et al. (2014b) (e,f,g), 2020 (a,b,h), Tcvetkova et al. (2019) (c,d). a-e – zoospores of Aph. insulamus (a,b), Aph. arduennense (c,d) and Aph. melosirae (e); a,c,e Swimming zoospores. b,d Crawling zoospores with simple filopodia (f) and branching filopodia (bf). f Plasmodium of Aph. melosirae in the host cell with central digestive vacuole (cv) containing residual body (rb). g Rounded resting spore (rs) of Aph. melosirae. h elongated resting spore (rs) of Aph. insulamus. Scale bars: a-e = 3 µm, f-h = 10 µm.
References
Entry by
Nalin N. Wijayawardene, Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, Yunnan 655011, P.R. China, Tropical Microbiology Research Foundation, 96/N/10, Meemanagoda Road, 10230 Pannipitiya, Sri Lanka, Department of Bioprocess Technology, Faculty of Technology, Rajarata University, Sri Lanka
Published online 25 September 2026