Fungalpedia – Note 1021, Fonsecaea

 

Fonsecaea. Negroni.

Citation when using this data: Tian Q et al. 2021 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

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Classification: Herpotrichiellaceae, Chaetothyriales, Chaetothyriomycetidae, Eurotiomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Pathogenic on a variety of plants, and organs of animals, including humans. Colonies restricted or moderately expanding, powdery to velvety, olivaceous brown to olivaceous black. Vegetative hyphae branched, pale olivaceous brown, septate, smooth-walled. Sexual morph: Undetermined. Asexual morph: hyphomycetous. Conidiophores absent or present, branched or unbranched, erect, slightly differentiated, oblong to cylindrical, olivaceous brown. Conidiogenous cells sympodial, lateral, intercalary or terminal, enteroblastic, phialidic, pale olivaceous, septate, with prominent denticles. Conidia ellipsoidal, cylindrical, in short chains, pale olivaceous brown, aseptate, with a conspicuous conidial brown scar, smooth-walled. Chlamydospores absent or present, globose (de Hoog et al. 2000a, Najafzadeh et al. 2010a, b).

Type species: Fonsecaea pedrosoi (Brumpt) Negroni, Revista Inst. Bacteriol. ‘Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán’: 424 (1936).

≡ Hormodendrum pedrosoi Brumpt, Précis Parasitol. hum., Edn 3 (Paris): 1105 (1922)

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Fonsecaea.

 

References

de Hoog GS, Guarro J, Gené J, Figueras MJ. 2000a – Atlas of Clinical Fungi, 2nd ed. Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, Utrecht, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus.

Najafzadeh MJ, Badali H, Illnait-Zaragozi MT, de Hoog GS et al. 2010b – In vitro activities of eight antifungal drugs against 55 clinical isolates of Fonsecaea. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 54, 1636–1638.

Najafzadeh MJ, Sun J, Vicente VA, Gerrits van den Ende AHG et al. 2010a – Fonsecaea nubica, a new species of agent of human chromoblastomycosis revealed using molecular data. Medical Mycology 48, 800–806.

 

Entry by

Qing Tian, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand

 

Published online 16 December 2021

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