850 MEDICAL MYCOLOGY 



PERICONIEAE 



Mycelium well developed, conidiopliores differentiated, ending in a vesicle ; 

 conidia black, not in chains. 



Key to the Periconieae 



Septa of conidiophore appearing as a black ring. Camptoum. 



Septa of conidiophore not as above. 



Conidia sessile on end of conidiophore, sterigma, if present, not highly developed. 

 Conidia spherical to ovoid, tip of conidiophore more or less swollen. 



Periconia. 

 Conidia elongate, tip of conidiophore not swollen. 



Conidiophore not branched. Gomphiriaria. 



Conidiophore branched. Synsporium. 



Conidia borne on highly developed sterigmata. 



Conidia not embedded in a gel. Stachybotrys. 



Conidia embedded in a gel. Gliobotrys. 



GOMPHINARIA 



GomphiiiKiria Preuss, Linnaea 24: 130, 1851. 



Acrotheca Auct. non Fuckel, Enum. Fung. Nassoviae 43, 1860. 



The type species is Gomphmaria amoena Preuss. 



Acrotheca was based on Acrotheca Gei Fuckel as a conidial stage of Depazea 

 geicola. 



Hyphae repent, not very evident above the substrate ; conidiophore not 

 branched, brown with simple, not swollen tip. Conidia fusiform to short 

 cylindric, brown, several attached close together at the tip of the conidiophore, 

 making a compact ball. 



Only a single parasitic species has been reported from this genus whose 

 species are saprophytic and rather rare. 



Gomphinaria Pedrosoi (Biiimpt) Dodge, n. comb. 



Phialophora verrucosa A. Pedroso & J. M. Gomes, Bull. Soc. Med. Cir. 

 Sao Paulo 3: 254, 1920; Gomes, Ibid. 3: 42, 43, 1 pi, 1920; Ann. Paulistas Med. 

 Cir. 11: 53-61, Pis., 1-5, 1920; not Medlar, Mycologia 7: 200-203, 1915. 



Hormodendrum Pedrosoi Brumpt, Precis Parasitol. ed. 3, 1921. 



Acrotheca Pedrosoi Fonseca & Area Leao, C. R. Soc. Biol. 89: 762, 763, 1923. 



Trichosporium Pedrosoanum Ota, Jap. Jour. Derm. Urol 28: [4], 6, 1928. 



Found in nodular ulcers in a case suspected of leprosy at first. Warts 

 covered by whitish crust which on removal leaves bleeding papillomatous 

 surface. 



Mycelium black, septate, branched. Conidiophores slightly larger above, 

 bearing a tuft of 3-15 ovoid or subfusiform spores more or less adhering in 

 a gel (Fig. 138). 



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