Chapter 156 - Sporobolomyces Kluyver & van Niel (1924)

Abstract

This chapter studies the genus Sporobolomyces. In the asexual reproduction it is seen that colonies are salmon-pink, orange-red, red, cream, or yellow-brown. Hyphae and pseudohyphae may be present. Cells are ellipsoidal, subglobose, or cylindrical. Budding is mostly polar, rarely lateral, or multilateral, with buds sessile or on short denticles, enteroblastic, and showing percurrent or sympodial proliferation. Ballistoconidia are bilaterally symmetrical, ellipsoidal, falcate, allantoid, lacrymoid, or amygdaliform. Sexual reproduction is absent. The chapter also discusses physiology/biochemistry and phylogenetic placement of the genus. The type species taken is Sporobolomyces salmonicolor. The key characters of species in the genus Sporobolomyces are presented. In the systematic discussion of the species, phylogenetic placement, growth on malt extract agar, growth in malt extract, Dalmau plate culture on corn meal agar, formation of ballistoconidia on corn meal agar, gene sequence accession numbers, type strain, origin of the strains studied, systematics, and ecology are determined.