AQUALINDERELLA FERMENTANS GEN. ET SP. NOV., A PHYCOMYCETE ADAPTED TO STAGNANT WATERS. I. MORPHOLOGY AND OCCURRENCE IN NATURE |
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| Authors: | Ralph Emerson William H Weston |
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| Institution: | Department of Botany, University of California, Berkeley
Biological Laboratories, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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| Abstract: | 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 CO2. 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. |
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