Biology:Apiotrichum

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Short description: Genus of fungi

Apiotrichum
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Tremellomycetes
Order: Trichosporonales
Family: Trichosporonaceae
Genus: Apiotrichum
Stautz (1931)
Type species
Apiotrichum porosum
Stautz
Synonyms

Hyalodendron
Protendomycopsis

Apiotrichum is a genus of fungi in the family Trichosporonaceae. Species are only known from their yeast states, most of which were formerly referred to the genus Trichosporon. Twenty species have been described worldwide.[1] Apiotrichum mycotoxinivorans is an occasional human pathogen.[2]

References

  1. "Towards an integrated phylogenetic classification of the Tremellomycetes". Studies in Mycology 81: 85–147. 2015. doi:10.1016/j.simyco.2015.12.001. 
  2. Hickey, P. W.; Sutton, D. A.; Fothergill, A. W.; Rinaldi, M. G.; Wickes, B. L.; Schmidt, H. J.; Walsh, T. J. (2009). "Trichosporon mycotoxinivorans, a Novel Respiratory Pathogen in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis". Journal of Clinical Microbiology 47 (10): 3091–3097. doi:10.1128/JCM.00460-09. ISSN 0095-1137. PMID 19656976. 

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