Fungalpedia – Note 992, Torula

 

Torula Pers. 

Citation when using this data: de Silva NI et al. 2022 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1

Classification: Torulaceae, Pleosporales, Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Torula was erected by Persoon (1794) with the type T. herbarum. These species commonly

inhabit terrestrial and aquatic habitats in temperate to tropical regions as saprobes (Li et al. 2020b). The asexual morph of the genus is characterized by terminal or lateral, monoblastic or polyblastic conidiogenous cells and dark brown, cylindrical to subcylindrical, solitary to catenate, acrogenous,  simple, phragmosporous, septate conidia (Crane & Miller 2016, Li et al. 2017, 2020b). There are 541 Torula species epithets in Index Fungorum (2022).

Type species: Torula herbarum (Pers.) Link, Mag. Gesell. naturf. Freunde, Berlin 3(1-2): 19 (1809).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Torula.

 

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Figure 1 – Torula canangae (MFLU 21-0250, holotype). a–c Appearance of colonies on substrate. d–j Conidia with conidiogenous cells. Scale bars: b, c = 100 μm, d–j = 10 μm.

 

References

Crane JL, Miller AN. 2016 – Studies in genera similar to Torula: Bahusaganda, Bahusandhika, Pseudotorula, and Simmonsiella gen. nov. IMA Fungus 7, 29–45.

Li JF, Jeewon R, Mortimer PE, Doilom M et al. 2020b – Multigene phylogeny and taxonomy of Dendryphion hydei and Torula hydei spp. nov. from herbaceous litter in northern Thailand. PloS One 15, p.e0228067.

Li JF, Phookamsak R, Jeewon R, Bhat DJ et al. 2017 – Molecular taxonomy and morphological characterization reveal new species and new host records of Torula species (Torulaceae, Pleosporales). Mycological Progress 16, 447–461.

Persoon CH. 1794 – Neuer Versuch einer systematischen Eintheilung der Schwaumme. N Mag Die Bot Ihrem Ganzen Umfange 1, 63–128.

 

Entry by

Nimali Indeewari de Silva, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Research Center of Microbial Diversity and Sustainable Utilization, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.

 

Published online 18 November 2022

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