Diploospora rosea Grove
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Diploöspora rosea Grove, 1916:220 (alternative presentation)
Conservation Status
Last record: 100+ years ago
Since rediscovered
"Nearly 100 years after its first discovery, Diploöspora rosea was detected on biologically damaged parchment paper in Rome, Italy and isolated from house dust collected in Micronesia."
(Tanney et al., 2015)
Distribution
Italy & Micronesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Grove, W. B. (1916). New or noteworthy fungi. Part V. J. Bot., Lond. 54: 220.
Other references:
Hughes, S. J. (1968). Diploospora. Canadian Journal of Botany 46(9): 1159-1160. https://doi.org/10.1139/b68-153
Pinzari, Flavia, Colaizzi, P., Maggi, O., Persiani, A. M., Schütz, R. and Rabin, I. (2012). Fungal bioleaching of mineral componentsin a twentieth-century illuminated parchment. Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 402: 1541-1550.
Pinzari, Flavia and Gutarowska, Beata. (2021). Extreme Colonizers and Rapid Profiteers: The Challenging World of Microorganisms That Attack Paper and Parchment, pp. 79-113. In: Joseph, Edith (ed.). Microorganisms in the Deterioration and Preservation of Cultural Heritage. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
Tanney, Joey B., Nguyen, Hai D. T., Pinzari, Flavia and Seifert, Keith A. (2015). A century later: rediscovery, culturing and phylogenetic analysis of Diploöspora rosea, a rare onygenalean hyphomycete. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 108: 1023-1035. [Abstract]