Rhizopodopsissporangiophores arise directly from the subtrate, they are simple or branched, and terminated by an umbel of globose, apophysate, fugacious, columellate, and multispored sporangia. Sporangiospores are variously shaped with a granulated wall. Zygospores have a rough zygosporangial wall and more or less equal suspensors; homothallic.
Type species:R. javanicus
Species ofRhizopodopsis:
R. javanicusBoedijn, 1959 (Sydowia 12:332).
Rhizopodopsisis only known from the initial isolate (Boedijn, 1958); O’Donnell (1979) also presented a description ofR. javanicusand a copy of Boedijn’s illustration. The taxon is invalid because the type was not indicated after 1 January 1958 as required in Art. 37.1 of the ICBN (Greuter et al., 2000). Neotypes have been designated for Boedijn’s (1958) other monotypic genera,Phascolomyces articulosis,Sporodiniella umbellata, andUtharomyces epallocaulus(Benny and Benjamin, 1976; Evans and Samson, 1977; Kirk and Benny, 1980).Rhizopodopsis javanicusis not known to be in culture.
