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Class 19: Fungi Imperfecti
Sub-division: Deuteromycotina
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1. Blastomycetes- lacking true mycelium,
reproduce by budding.
2. Hyphomycetes- mycelium well
developed, conidia directly produce on
hyphae or conidiophore (free or
aggregated ) or mycelia sterile.
3. Coelomycetes- spores or conidia
produced either in acervuli or pycnidium.
Orders of Hyphomycetes
Moniliales-
Conidia are produced directly
on hyphae (micronematous) or
on conidiophore or
on aggregated conidiophores
aggregated
Conidia Conidia on conidiophores
on hypha conidiophore
Stilbaceae— Conidiophores
aggregated in a synnema (pl.
synnemata), e.g. Graphium, Isaria
etc.
Synnema
Family of Agonomycetales
• Agonomycetaceae-
– single family of Agonomycetales
– fungi are often referred to as Mycelia Sterilia
– they lack even the imperfect stage i.e. no spores
of any kind are produced and reproduced only by
fragmentation
– e.g. Rhizoctonia and Sclerotium etc
Orders of Coelomycetes
Melanconiales
Fruiting bodies are acervuli
This order has only one family and
i.e. Melanconiaceae
e.g. Colletotrichum, Pestalotia, Acervulus
Pestaliopsis etc.
Families of Sphaeropsidales
Sphaeropsidales- The fruiting bodies are pycnidia and
it has four families
Sphaeropsidaceae
– tough, leathery to brittle, globose, ostiolate and
dark colored pycnidia
– e.g. Phoma, Phomopsis, Macrophomina, Pycnidium
Phyllosticta, Ascochyta, Botryodiplodia, Septoria
etc.
Nectrioidaceae-
bright colored and waxy pycnidia
e.g. Zythia
Families of Sphaeropsidales
• Leptostromataceae-
– Shield shaped, flattened, brown pycnidia
– e.g. Leptostroma
• Excipulaceae
– Cup or saucer shaped black, tough or hard
textured pycnidia
– e.g. Excipula
THE SAME FUNGUS CAN HAVE TWO NAMES