Umbelopsis

Fungalpedia – Note 2360, Umbelopsis

Citation when using this data: Yuan HS et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

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Classification: Umbelopsidaceae, Umbelopsidales, Incertae sedis, Umbelopsidomycetes, Mucoromycotina, Mucoromycota, Fungi

Notes: The genus Umbelopsis, erected by Amos and Barnett (1966) to accommodate
U. versiformis (initially positioned within the Deuteromycetes Sacc.), comprises 17 species (Yip 1986; Meyer and Gams 2003; Sugiyama et al. 2003; Mahoney et al. 2004; Wang et al. 2014; Wang et al. 2015; Crous et al. 2017; Wanasinghe et al. 2018). Members of Umbelopsis produce velutinous colonies and sporangia with colors ranging from ocher to red and pink, except
U. nana, which produces hyaline sporangia (Sugiyama et al. 2003). The morphological classification of Umbelopsis specimens is based mainly on colony color, branching pattern of the sporangiophores, pigment production capacity, the size and shape of sporangia, columellae and sporangiospores, as well as the types of chlamydospores formed (Sugiyama et al. 2003; Wang et al. 2015). The delimitation of species of this genus has also been based on physiological and genetic criteria (Meyer and Gams 2003; Sugiyama et al. 2003; Ogawa et al. 2011; Wang et al. 2015; Spatafora et al. 2016; Crous et al. 2017; Wanasinghe et al. 2018).

Type species: Umbelopsis versiformis Amos & H.L. Barnett, Mycologia 58(5): 807 (1966).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Umbelopsis.

Figure 1 – Microscopic structures of Umbelopsis heterosporus (URM 7882, holotype). a Colony surface after seven days at 25 ºC on PDA. b Simple sporangiophore with globose sporangia. c, d Branched sporangiophore with sporangia. e Simple sporangiophore with inconspicuous columella and collarette (arrow). f–g Simple sporangiophore with columella.
h Sporangiospores. Scale bars: 25 μm

References

Amos RE, Barnett HL (1966) Umbelopsis versiformis, a new genus and species of the imperfects. Mycologia 58:805–808

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Mahoney D, Gams W, Meyer W, Starink-Willemse M (2004) Umbelopsis dimorpha sp. nov., a link between U. vinacea and U. versiformis. Mycol Res 108 (1):107–111

Meyer W, Gams W (2003) Delimitation of Umbelopsis (Mucorales, Umbelopsidaceae fam. nov.) based on ITS sequence and RFLP data. Mycol Res 107 (3):339–350

Ogawa Y, Sugiyama M, Hirose D, Kusama-Eguchi K, Tokumasu S (2011) Polyphyly of intraspecific groups of Umbelopsis ramanniana and their genetic and morphological variation. Mycoscience 52:91–98

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Sugiyama M, Tokumasu S, Gams W (2003) Umbelopsis gibberispora sp. nov. from Japanese leaf litter and a clariﬁcation of Micromucor ramannianus var. angulisporus. Mycoscience 44:217–226

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Wang YN, Liu XY, Zheng RY (2014) Umbelopsis changbaiensis sp. nov. from China and the typification of Mortierella vinacea. Mycol Progress 13:657–669

Wang YN, Liu XY, Zheng RY (2015) Umbelopsis longicollis comb. nov. and the synonymy of U. roseonana and U. versiformis with U. nana. Mycologia 107:1023–1032

Yip HY (1986) Two new species of Umbelopsis from soil in Australia. Trans Br Mycol Soc 86:243–248

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Hai-Sheng Yuan, CAS Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Management, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, 110164, People’s Republic of China, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, People’s Republic of China

Published online 30 April 2026

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