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AQUALINDERELLA FERMENTANS GEN. ET SP. NOV., A PHYCOMYCETE ADAPTED TO STAGNANT WATERS. I. MORPHOLOGY AND OCCURRENCE IN NATURE
Author(s) -
Emerson Ralph,
Weston William H.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
american journal of botany
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.218
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1537-2197
pISSN - 0002-9122
DOI - 10.1002/j.1537-2197.1967.tb10692.x
Subject(s) - biology , thallus , botany , genus , chlorophyta , algae , morphology (biology) , phycomycetes , ecology , zoology , horticulture , inoculation
Aqualinderella fermentans is described as a new genus and species in the order Leptomitales of the biflagellate, aquatic phycomycetes. Based upon pure as well as gross cultures, an account is given of its germination, its bipolar, unicellular, vegetative thallus, and its reproductive structures. The genus is distinguished particularly by an exceptionally coarse, digitately divided and thick‐walled extramatrical body. The species is unique among known true fungi in that it combines a strictly fermentative metabolism with a requirement for high CO 2 . It is specially adapted to grow saprophytically in warm, stagnant waters on submerged fruits and has been found in equatorial Africa, Central America, and the southern United States.