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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Mucoromycota |
| Class: | Mortierellomycetes |
| Order: | Mortierellales |
| Family: | Mortierellaceae A.Fisch. (1892) |
| Type genus | |
| Mortierella Coem. (1863) | |
| Genera | |
The Mortierellaceae are a family of fungi in the order Mortierellales. The family contains six genera and 93 species. [1]
Many genera have been included in this family. [2] According to Fitzpatrick, the family contained Mortierella , Herpocladium , Dissophora , and Haplosporangium . [3] Later, Herpocladium was removed and Aquamortierella added. Another genus, Echinosporangium , was later added. [4] Currently, the family contains Mortierella , which may be paraphyletic compared to other genera, the bitypic (containing only two species) Dissophora and Modicella , and the monotypic (containing only one species) genera Aquamortierella , Lobosporangium , and Gamsiella . [5] A new genus, Echinochlamydosporium , was described in 2011. [6] In 2018, due to DNA analysis, Echinochlamydosporium was transferred to the Calcarisporiellaceae family. [7]
Members of this family have coenocytic hyphae. Colonies tend to be white or off-white and are characterized by zonate growth—that is, growing in rings—and an onion or garlic smell. Single or multiple columellate sporangia are born on aerial sporangiophores. Their distinctive zygospores may be enveloped by hyphae. They may be smooth or dimples but nearly all have apposed suspensors. [2] This family also produces chlamydospores, which may be spiny or rough and thick-walled. [4]
Mortierella is the most commonly encountered and well studied of the genera. [2] Members of this genus typically are saprobes in soil, dung, and reproductive bodies of higher fungi, but there are facultative parasites. [3] Isolates of Mortierella can be readily obtained from forest soils on Czapek agar, hay agar, or water agar. [8] Members of this genus are thought to play significant roles in temperate forest ecosystems, though many are psychrophiles (requiring cold temperatures for growth) and are likely overlooked in soil samples incubated at room temperature. [2]
The Hymenochaetales are an order of fungi in the class Agaricomycetes. The order in its current sense is based on molecular research and not on any unifying morphological characteristics. According to one 2008 estimate, the Hymenochaetales contain around 600 species worldwide, mostly corticioid fungi and poroid fungi, but also including several clavarioid fungi and agarics. Species of economic importance include wood decay fungi in the genera Phellinus and Inonotus sensu lato, some of which may cause losses in forestry. Therapeutic properties are claimed for Inonotus obliquus ("chaga") and Phellinus linteus, both of which are now commercially marketed.
Sordariomycetes is a class of fungi in the subdivision Pezizomycotina (Ascomycota). It is the second-largest class of Ascomycota, with a worldwide distribution that mostly accommodates terrestrial based taxa, although several can also be found in aquatic habitats. Some are phytopathogens that can cause leaf, stem, and root diseases in a wide variety of hosts, while other genera can cause diseases in arthropods and mammals.
Mortierella species are soil fungi belonging to the order Mortierellales within the subphylum Mortierellomycotina. The widespread genus contains about 85 species.
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