Type genus.

Taxon classification

Fungi

Bifiguratales

Tedersoo

Leho

Magurno

Franco

Alkahtani

Saad

Mikryukov

Vladimir

Phylogenetic classification of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: new species and higher-ranking taxa in

Glomeromycota

and

Mucoromycota

(class

Endogonomycetes

)

MycoKeys09082024107273325

10.3897/mycokeys.107.125549

42100643-7102-5F0F-871D-8A0DB31BB616

Bifigurataceae

853689

Tedersoo

fam. nov.

Type genus.

Bifiguratus T.J.Torres-Cruz & A.Porras-Alfaro.

Description.

Cultured mycelium filamentous, aseptate, coenocytic, 2 μm diam., mucose in appearance, commonly producing budding yeast-like cells; chlamydospores intercalary, 5–10 μm diam., forming on hyphal tips. Phylogenetically delimited by the least inclusive clade covering sequence accessions HM123225, EUK1104879, KF568171 and KF567389.

Notes.

Comprised of a single genus Bifiguratus that is commonly found in soil and occasionally in roots of non-AM plants. No sexual structures have been revealed. Family description is adapted from Torres-Cruz et al. (2017).

Torres-Cruz

Billingsley Tobias

Almatruk

Hesse

Kuske

Desirò

Niccolò Benucci

Bonito

Stajich

Dunlap

Arnold

Porras-Alfaro

(2017)

Bifiguratus

adelaidae

gen. et sp. nov., a new member of

Mucoromycotina

in endophytic and soil-dwelling habitats.Mycologia109(3): 363–378. https://doi.org/10.1080/00275514.2017.1364958