Neobulgaria koningiana Unter. & Réblová 2019
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Neobulgaria koningiana Unter. & Réblová in Untereiner et al., Mycologia [20 of 30] (2019)
Neobulgaria koningiana Unter. & Réblová 2019
Biostatus
Exotic
Absent
New Zealand
Political Region
Reports of 'Phialophora alba' from NZ were based on misidentifications
Nomenclature
Unter. & Réblová
Unter. & Réblová
2019
[20 of 30]
replacement name
ICN
Neobulgaria koningiana Unter. & Réblová 2019
species
Neobulgaria koningiana
Classification
Synonyms
Descriptions
Neobulgaria koningiana Unter. & Réblová 2019
Hyphae hyaline, septate, smooth-walled, 1.0–2.5 µm wide. Phialides hyaline, single, arising from undifferentiated hyphae and often curled toward the hyphae on which they are borne, occasionally on basitonously or penicillately branched conidiophores, cylindrical to ampulliform, constricted below the collarette, 9.0–22 × 2.0–3.5 μm (mean ± SD: 15 ± 4.0 × 2.5 ± 0.5 μm). Collarettes indistinct, cup-shaped, 2.0–3.5 μm deep. Conidia hyaline, clavate to ellipsoidal, with a truncate base, 3.5–4.5 × 2.5–3.5 μm (mean ± SD: 4.0 ± 0.5 × 3.0 ± 0.5 μm) on MLA, 3.5–4.5 × 2.0–3.0 μm (mean ± SD: 4.0 ± 0.5 × 2.5 ± 0.5 μm) in slide culture on MLA, slimy and accumulating in small groups at the apices of the phialides. Chlamydospores, ascomatal initials, and ascomata not observed.
Neobulgaria koningiana is based on Phialophora alba, but the epithet “alba” is unavailable for this species because of the validly published Neobulgaria alba, the name applied by Johnston et al. (2010) to an apothecial species from kiwifruit vines. Although the kiwifruit pathogen was identified originally as Ph. alba, the ex-type culture of this species (CBS 112.43) was identified as belonging to Paecilomyces based on the comparison of ITS sequences (Johnston et al. 2010). The isolate characterized in our study (MUCL 9775) is derived from CBS 112.43 and conforms closely to the descriptions of the Ph. alba provided by van Beyma Thoe Kingma (1943) and Schol-Schwarz (Citation1970). It differs from N. alba in producing smaller, more spherical conidia (3.5–4.5 × 2.5–3.5 μm vs. 4.5–5 × 3–3.5 μm) and phialides that are solitary or grouped on conidiophores with fewer levels of branching. It seems probable, therefore, that the strain representing CBS 112.43 sequenced by Johnston et al. (2010) was a contaminant.
THE NETHERLANDS. Amersfoort, wood of Fagus sylvatica, H.C. Koning (holotype CBS H-7564; isotypes CBS H-7565, CBS H-7566, CBS H-7567). Ex-type culture CBS 112.43 = IHEM 5885 = MUCL 9775.
Taxonomic concepts
Neobulgaria koningiana Unter. & Réblová 2019
Neobulgaria koningiana Unter. & Réblová 2019
Phialophora alba J.F.H. Beyma (1943)
Phialophora alba J.F.H. Beyma 1943
Phialophora alba J.F.H. Beyma 1943
Global name resources
Notes
taxonomic status
Johnston et al. (2010) reported on ITS sequence from the ex-type culture of Phialophora alba (CBS 112.43) to be a Paecilomyces sp., but Utereiner et al. (2019) resequenced this CBS culture and found it to be a Neobulgaria sp., that they described as N. koningiana.
Metadata
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scientific name
Names_Fungi
12 November 2019
28 September 2024