Fungalpedia – Note 1031, Veronaea
Veronaea Cif. & Montemart.
Citation when using this data: Tian Q et al. 2021 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig 1
Classification: Incertae sedis, Incertae sedis, Incertae sedis, Incertae sedis, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Biotrophic or saprobic on various plants, animal dung and soil. Colonies effuse, velvety, pale olivaceous-brown. Hyphae immersed, hyaline to pale olivaceous, darkly pigmented in aerial hyphae, smooth-walled. Sexual morph: Undetermined. Asexual morph: hyphomycetous. Conidiophores erect, straight or flexuose, unbranched or occasionally loosely branched, sometimes geniculate, pale to medium- or olivaceous-brown, smooth-walled. Conidiogenous cells terminally integrated, occasionally intercalary, polyblastic, cylindrical, hyaline to pale brown, rachis with crowded, flat to slightly prominent, faintly pigmented, unthickened scars, smooth-walled. Conidia solitary cylindrical to pyriform, rounded at the apex and truncate at the base, subhyaline to pale brown, 1(–2)-septate, conidial secession schizolytic. Exophiala-type budding cells absent in culture (Arzanlou et al. 2007).
Type species: Veronaea botryosa Cif. & Montemart., Atti Ist. bot. Univ. Lab. crittog. Pavia, sér. 5 15: 68 (1957).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Veronaea.
Figure 1 – Veronaea botryosa (redrawn from Seifert et al. 2011). a–d Conidiophores and Conidiogenous cells with conidia. e Conidia. Scale bars: a–e = 10 µm.
References
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