| Leucosporidium | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Microbotryomycetes |
| Order: | Leucosporidiales |
| Family: | Leucosporidiaceae |
| Genus: | Leucosporidium Fell, Statzell, I.L. Hunter & Phaff (1970) |
| Type species | |
| Leucosporidium scottii Fell, Statzell, I.L. Hunter & Phaff (1970) | |
| Species | |
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Leucosporidium creatinivorum | |
| Synonyms | |
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Leucosporidiella Samp. (2003) | |
Leucosporidium is a genus of fungi in the subdivision Pucciniomycotina. The genus comprises fungi that are mostly known from their yeast states, though some produce hyphal states in culture that give rise to teliospores from which auricularioid (laterally septate) basidia emerge. Species known only from their anamorphic yeast states were formerly referred to the genus Leucosporidiella, but, following changes to the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants, the practice of giving different names to teleomorph and anamorph forms of the same fungus was discontinued, meaning that Leucosporidiella became a synonym of the earlier name Leucosporidium. Species have been isolated predominantly from cold environments and are regarded as psychrotolerant.
References
- Fell JW, Statzell AC, Hunter IL, Phaff HJ (1969). "Leucosporidium gen. n., the heterobasidiomycetous stage of several yeasts of the genus Candida". Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 35 (4): 433–462. doi:10.1007/bf02219163.
- ^ Sampaio JP, Gadanho M, Bauer R, Weiss M (2003). "Taxonomic studies in the Microbotryomycetidae: Leucosporidium golubevii sp. nov., Leucosporidiella gen. nov. and the new orders Leucosporidiales and Sporidiobolales". Mycological Progress. 2 (1): 53–68. doi:10.1007/s11557-006-0044-5.
- ^ de García V, Coelho MA, Maia TM, Rosa LH, Vaz AM, Rosa CA, Sampaio JP, Gonçalves P, van Broock M, Libkind D (2015). "Sex in the cold: taxonomic reorganization of psychrotolerant yeasts in the order Leucosporidiales". FEMS Yeast Research. 15 (4). doi:10.1093/femsyr/fov019. hdl:11336/11716.
- Wang Q, Yurkov AM, Göker M, Lumbsch HT, Leavitt SD, Groenewald M, Theelen B, Liu X, Boekhout T, Bai F (2016). "Phylogenetic classification of yeasts and related taxa within Pucciniomycotina". Studies in Mycology. 81: 149–189. doi:10.1016/j.simyco.2015.12.002. PMC 4777780. PMID 26951631.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Leucosporidium | |