Fungalpedia – Note 2862, Phaeodischloridium
Phaeodischloridium. W.P. Wu & Y.Z. Diao.
Citation when using this data: Wenping Wu et al. 2022 – Fungalpedia.
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Classification: Chaetosphaeriaceae, Chaetosphaeriales, Sordariomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Etymology: Refers to its similarity to Dischloridium in monophialidic conidiogenous cells with mbroad opening and cylindrical conidia.
Diagnosis: Similar to Dischloridium but differs in producing coloted and septate conidia.
Colonies effuse, hairy, velvety, dark brown. Stroma absent. Teleomorph: Unknown. Anamorph: Conidiophores solitary, erect, unbranched, straight, or slightly flexuous, septate, smooth or verruculose, dark brown, percurrently regenerating, paler towards the apex, with a swollen base. Conidiogenous cells integrated, terminal, cylindrical, lageniform, collarette inconspicuous. Conidia holoblastic, solitary, accumulating in slimy brown masses at the apices or sometimes sliding down along the sides of conidiogenous cells after secession, cylindrical to cylindric-clavate, obtuse at both ends, medium to dark brown except the pale brown basal cells, 3-septate, apical cell longer than others, thinwalled, smooth.
Ecology/Substrate/Host: Saprobe on dead material of plants.
Geographical distribution: China and Japan.
Type species: Phaeodischloridium inaequiseptum (Matsush.) W.P. Wu & Y.Z. Diao (≡ Endophragmia inaequisepta Matsush.).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Phaeodischloridium.
Entry by
Wenping Wu, R&D Center, Novozymes China, No. 14 Xin Xi Lu, Shangdi Zone, Haidian District, Beijing 100085, P.R. China
Published online 03 September 2026