Colony with a garlic odor, composed of aerial hyphae or stolons that are septate and collapse when mature. Sporangiophores tapered, bearing multispored sporangia, with a deliquescent wall; columella septum-like to slightly convex. Sporangiospores more or less angular to globose. Chlamydospores intercalary or terminal. Zygospores unknown.
Type species:D. decumbens
Species ofDissophora:
D. decumbensThaxter, 1914 [Botanical Gazette (Crawfordsville) 58:361] (Thaxter, 1914; O’Donnell, 1979; Gams and Carreiro, 1989).
D. nadsoniiPhilippov =Umbelopsis isabellinaq.v. fide W. Gams and Carreiro (1989).
D. ornata(W. Gams) W. Gams, 1989 (in Gams and Carreiro, Studies in Mycology 31:91).
=Mortierella ornataW. Gams, 1983 (in Veerkamp and W. Gams, Caldasia 13:715) (Veerkamp and Gams, 1983).
The production of septate stolons is a diagnostic character of the genusDissphora. Both species ofDissophoragrow and sporulate best below 20 C (Veerkamp and Gams, 1983; Gams and Carreiro, 1989). Thaxter (1914) did not mention the temperature requirements ofD. decumbens(Benny, 1995). A third species ofDissophora, D. nadsonii, isUmbelopsis isabellinaaccording to Gams and Carreiro (1989) (Zygomycetes.org 2015)
Dissophora is a genus of fungi in the Mortierellaceae family of the Zygomycota. The genus is widespread in north temperate regions and contains three species.[1] Dissophora was circumscribed by American mycologist Roland Thaxter in 1914.[2]
Dissophora is a genus of fungi in the Mortierellaceae family of the Zygomycota. The genus is widespread in north temperate regions and contains three species. Dissophora was circumscribed by American mycologist Roland Thaxter in 1914.
