Stephanoascales

From Palaeos

As pointed out by Schweigkofler et al. (2002), the "Candida" anamorphs of Stephanoascales are quite distant phylogenetically and have a different cell-wall chemistry from Candida in Saccharomycetales sensu stricto. It therefore seems inappropriate to place them within the same genus, even if said genus is, strictly speaking, a form genus only. The name Galactocandida is available for stephanoascalean anamorphs. However, this name seems to have been almost universally ignored, and all species are still lumped in Candida.

<==Stephanoascales
   |--Stephanoascus
   |    |--S. ciferrii
   |    `--S. smithiae
   `--Starmerella [anam. Galactocandida incl. Entelexis]
        |  i. s.: anam. ‘Candida’ apis
        |         anam. ‘Candida’ bertae
        |         anam. ‘Candida’ blankii
        |         anam. ‘Candida’ castrensis
        |         anam. ‘Candida’ edax
        |         anam. ‘Candida’ gropengiesserii
        |         anam. ‘Candida’ magnoliae [incl. *Entelexis magnoliae]
        |         anam. ‘Candida’ paludigena
        |         anam. ‘Candida’ sorbophila
        |         anam. ‘Candida’ valdiviana
        |         anam. ‘Candida’ versatilis
        |--anam. ‘Candida’ vaccinii
        `--+--+--anam. ‘Candida’ floricola
           |  `--anam. ‘Candida’ powellii
           `--+--+--anam. ‘Candida’ batistae
              |  `--S. bombicola
              `--+--+--anam. ‘Candida’ apicola
                 |  `--anam. ‘Candida’ bombi
                 `--+--+--anam. ‘Candida’ etchellsii
                    |  `--S. meliponinorum Teixeira, Marini et al. 2003
                    `--+--anam. ‘Candida’ lactis-condensi
                       |--anam. ‘Candida’ zemplinina Sipiczki 2003
                       `--+--anam. ‘Candida’ davenportii
                          `--anam. ‘Candida’ stellata

* Type species of genus indicated

References

Eriksson, O. E. (ed.) 1999. Notes on ascomycete systematics. Nos 2440-2755. Myconet 2: 1-41.

Schweigkofler, W., K. Lopandic, O. Molnár & H. Prillinger. 2002. Analysis of phylogenetic relationships among Ascomycota with yeast phases using ribosomal DNA sequences and cell wall sugars. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 2: 1-17.

Sipiczki, M. 2003. Candida zemplinina sp. nov., an osmotolerant and psychrotolerant yeast that ferments sweet botrytized wines. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 53: 2079-2083.

Teixeira, A. C. P., M. M. Marini, J. R. Nicoli, Y. Antonini, R. P. Martins, M.-A. Lachance & C. A. Rosa. 2003. Starmerella meliponinorum sp. nov., a novel ascomycetous yeast species associated with stingless bees. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 53: 339-343.

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