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Figure 1) Fennellomyces linderi (strain RSA 1016-3-300). A sporangium showing the subsporangial vesicle which leaves a columella after the spore wall dissolves. Figure 2) Fennellomyces linderi (strain RSA 1016-3-300). A sporangium showing the subsporangial vesicle and sporangiola (the smaller structures at the sides). Figure 3) Fennellomyces linderi (strain RSA 1016-3-300). A single sporangiolum. Images by Gerald Benny.
Figure 1) Fennellomyces linderi (strain RSA 1016-3-300). A sporangium showing the subsporangial vesicle which leaves a columella after the spore wall dissolves. Figure 2) Fennellomyces linderi (strain RSA 1016-3-300). A sporangium showing the subsporangial vesicle and sporangiola (the smaller structures at the sides). Figure 3) Fennellomyces linderi (strain RSA 1016-3-300). A single sporangiolum. Images by Gerald Benny.

Fennellomyces linderi CBS 158.54 was first isolated from poplin fabric in Florida, USA. It was originally described as Circinella linderi by Hesseltine and Fennell (1955). The type strain was deposited in the NRRL collection as NRRL 2342 (and a duplicate was deposited later as CBS 158.54). In 1975 the species was transferred to the genus Fennellomyces as the type species of the genus (Benny and Benjamin 1975). Species of Fennellomyces were initially classified within the family Thamnidiaceae based on morphological features, but molecular phylogenetic studies indicate that Thamnidiaceae is polyphyletic (O’Donnell et al. 2000; Walther et al. 2013). Recent phylogenetic results suggest that Fennellomyces belongs in the Lichtheimiaceae (Hoffmann et al. 2009, Hoffmann et al. 2013). Species of Fennellomyces produce multi-spored sporangia in which the sporangial wall dissolves at maturity, revealing a conspicuous columella (Figs. 1-2). In addition to bearing terminal multi-spored sporangia, the sporangiophore also bears persistent-walled sporangiola on recurved lateral branches (Fig. 3). The genome of Fennellomyces linderi was sequenced to help elucidate evolution of the early diverging fungi within the framework of the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project.

References:

Benny GL, Benjamin RK. 1975. Observations on Thamnidiaceae (Mucorales). New taxa, new combinations, and notes on selected species. Aliso 8: 301-351.

Hesseltine CW, Fennell DI. 1955. The genus Circinella. Mycologia 47:193-212.

Hoffmann K, Walther G, Vigt K. 2009. Mycocladus vs. Lichtheimia: a correction (Lichtheimiaceae fam. nov., Mucorales, Mucoromycotina). Mycological Research 113: 277-278.

O’Donnell K, Lutzoni F, Ward TJ, Benny GL. 2000. Evolutionary relationships among mucoralean fungi (Zygomycota): Evidence for family polyphyly on a large scale. Mycologia 93:286─296.

Walther G, Pawłowska J, Alastruey-Izquierdo A, Wrzosek M, Rodriguez-Tudela JL, et al. 2013. DNA barcoding in Mucorales: an inventory of biodiversity. Persoonia