Specimen Details

ICMP 12882 – Pseudopithomyces toxicarius B.S. Weir, D. Lee, J.S. Sidhu & C.R. Voisey

Data provider:

International Collection Of Microorganisms

Barcode:

ICMP 12882

Culture type:

Fungal Culture

Loan status:

Active

Database record added:

25 January 2002

Database record updated:

04 July 2025

Components

Primary component

Active identification

Determined name:

Pseudopithomyces toxicarius B.S. Weir, D. Lee, J.S. Sidhu & C.R. Voisey

Determiner:

B.S. Weir

Identification date:

2025-05-09 (Verbatim: 9 May 2025)

Preferred name:

Pseudopithomyces toxicarius B.S. Weir, D. Lee, J.S. Sidhu & C.R. Voisey

Division:

Ascomycota

Class:

Dothideomycetes

Order:

Pleosporales

Family:

Didymosphaeriaceae

Identification type:

Determination

Note:

multigene sequences

Reference text:

Weir et al. 2025

Substrate:

Pasture

Other identifications

Identification

Determined name:

Pseudopithomyces sp. nov. NZ B.S. Weir ined.

Determiner:

B.S. Weir

Identification date:

2022-06-22 (Verbatim: 22 Jun 2022)

Preferred name:

Pseudopithomyces toxicarius B.S. Weir, D. Lee, J.S. Sidhu & C.R. Voisey

Active:

Identification type:

Determination

Note:

RPB2 gene

Identification

Determined name:

Pithomyces chartarum

Determiner:

Identification date:

Preferred name:

Pseudopithomyces chartarum (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) J.F. Li, Ariyawansa & K.D. Hyde

Active:

Identification type:

Received as

Identification

Determined name:

Leptosphaerulina chartarum Cec. Roux

Determiner:

Identification date:

Preferred name:

Leptosphaerulina chartarum Cec. Roux

Active:

Identification type:

Determination

Collection events

Primary collection event

Collection event type:

Field

Standard locality

Location:

Yarra Hills, Victoria

Georeferences:

Latitude and Longitude (WGS84): -37.73 145.683

Verbatim locality:

Yarrah Hills, Victoria

Verbatim collector:

[Unknown]

Verbatim date:

Apr 1994

Start date:

1994-04

Country:

Australia

Culture flags

MPI:

Restricted Culture

Price Category:

Category 2

Culture notes

Other Details:

single spore isolate

External links

CIS - PDD:

PDD 65539

Datastore:

10.7931/m6kn-3e23

GenBank:

AM231399 - 18S rRNA, 5.8S rRNA, 28S rRNA

OR691788 - genomic DNA

Literature:

Mysterud, Ivar; Høiland, Klaus; Koller, Gry; Stensrud, Øyvind (2007)Molecular characterization and evaluation of plant litter-associated fungi from the spring ‘grazing corridor’ of a sheep herd vulnerable to alveld disease.Mycopathologia164(5)201-215. DOI: 10.1007/s11046-007-9045-4

Weir, B.S.; Sidhu, J.S.; Brosnahan, C.L.; Lee, D.; Maclean, P.H.; Park, D.; Jauregui, R.; Johnson, R.D.; Petterson, M.E.; Williams, A.F.R.; Morse, N.R.; Sprosen, J.M.; Lim, Y.-W.; Bridgeman, B.J.; Walker, T.J.; Kumar, S.; Mace, W.J.; Prakash, S.; Liu, X.; Hume, D.E.; Couldrey, C.; Beever, R.E.; Voisey, C.R. (2025)Global diversity analysis of plant-associated Pseudopithomyces fungi reveals a new species producing the toxin associated with facial eczema in livestock: Pseudopithomyces toxicarius sp. nov.Studies in Mycology. DOI: 10.3114/sim.2025.112.02

Culture events

Isolated:

Date:

01 April 1994 (Verbatim: 01 Apr 1994)

Deposited:

Note:

Derived from earliest batch date

Actioned by:

Ross E. Beever (Reference number 795-5)

Date:

01 March 1996 (Verbatim: 01 Mar 1996)

Transferred via:

Actioned by:

Roger G. Collin (Reference number RC82)

Permissions

Project permits

Project title:

Local Contexts - ICMP Culture Collection

Reference:

ICMP Collection - Local Contexts

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