Fungalpedia – Note 1129, Apiocamarops

 

Apiocamarops. Samuels & J.D. Rogers.

Citation when using this data: Hyde KD et al. 2020 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1

Classification: Boliniaceae, Boliniales, Sordariomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, AscomycotaFungi

Notes – Apiocamarops is characterized by ascomata surrounded by furfuraceous outer coating, cylindrical asci and brown ascospores (Samuels & Rogers 1987). Four species were accommodated in Apiocamarops (A. alba, A. cryptocellula, A. luquilloensis, and A. pulvinata) and they are related to Camarops with turbinate stromata and ascospores with a germ pore at one end (Samuels & Rogers 1987, Rogers & Samuels 1988, Reagan & Waide 1996, Rogers & Ju 2003). Apiocamarops has furfuraceous, hyaline ascomata and 1-septate ascospores and differs from Camarops which has black ascomata and aseptate ascospores (Samuels & Rogers 1987). 

Type species: Apiocamarops alba Samuels & J.D. Rogers, Mycotaxon 28(1): 54 (1987).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Apiocamarops.

 

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Figure 1 – Apiocamarops alba (Material examined – BRAZIL, Amazonas, Plateau of Serra Araca. Alt. 1250 m. (4101 ft.) 00° 54′ 06″N, 63° 22′ 29″W (0.902, -63.375), Cloud forest, on decorticated wood, 19 February 1984, collected by G. J. Samuels 486 with G. T. Francis, J. Pipoly, NY no. 00986029, holotype). Material label. b Material. c Ascomata. d Ascoma cross section. e Peridium. f Paraphyses. g-i Asci. j-m Ascospores. Scale bars: b = 2000 μm, c-d = 200 μm, e = 50 μm, g-i = 20 μm, f = 10 μm, j-m = 5 μm.

 

References

Reagan DP, Waide RB. 1996 – The food web of a tropical rain forest. University of Chicago, Chicago.

Rogers JD, Ju YM. 2003 – Occultitheca costaricensis gen. et sp. nov. and Apiocamarops pulvinata sp. nov. from Costa Rica. Sydowia 55, 359–364.

Rogers JD, Samuels GJ. 1988 – Apiocamarops cryptocellula, a new species from Guyana. Mycologia 80, 738–741.

Samuels GJ, Müller E, Petrini O. 1987 – Studies on the Amphisphaeriaceae (sensu lato) 3. New species of Monographella and Pestalosphaeria and two new genera. Mycotaxon 28, 473–499.

 

Entry by

Kevin David Hyde, Institute of Plant Health, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Haizhu District, Guangzhou 510225, P.R. China, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, Mushroom Research Foundation, 128 M.3 Ban Pa Deng T. Pa Pae, A. Mae Taeng, Chiang Mai 50150, Thailand, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China, School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, World Agroforestry Centre, East and Central Asia, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China

 

Published online 28 February 2020