Abstract
The morphological and physiological characters of the species of Blastobotrys, and of a number of similar species of Sporothrix, Trichosporiella and Candida were studied. Blastobotrys is defined as having mother cells (primary conidia) which form distinct, secondary conidia. Sporothix has non-catenulate conidia, or the conidia are catenulate without marked differentiation of conidia of first and second order. Trichosporiella is delimited from Candida by a stronger coherence between hyphal cells, arthroconidia being absent. Four new Blastobotrys species are described, and two unnamed species; two new combinations are proposed in Trichosporiella. Related species in other genera are briefly discussed. A new Stephanoascus teleomorph is described in two strains originally identified as Sp. fungorum. Two diagnostic keys to the described taxa, using either morphological or physiological characters, are given.
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de Hoog, G.S., Rantio-Lehtimäki, A.H. & Smith, M.T. Blastobotrys, Sporothrix and Trichosporiella: generic delimitation, new species, and a Stephanoascus teleomorph. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 51, 79–109 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00444231
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