Abstract
A review of the available information on the monotypic genus Wallemia supports the interpretation that W. sebi is probably a basidiomycete and may be a teleomorph. It has dolipore/parenthesome septa similar to those found in the suborder Tremellineae, except that the associated parenthesome vesicles are very small and composed of a single membrane. A conjectural interpretation is made that the spore chains, which are composed of repeating sets of four, are meiospores generated from a permanently diploid mother cell that divides repeatedly to generate meiocyte daughter cells.
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Moore, R.T. A note on Wallemia sebi . Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 52, 183–187 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00429322
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00429322