Acaulospora koskei
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| Acaulospora koskei | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Glomeromycota |
| Class: | Glomeromycetes |
| Order: | Diversisporales |
| Family: | Acaulosporaceae |
| Genus: | Acaulospora |
| Species: | A. koskei |
| Binomial name | |
| Acaulospora koskei Błaszk. (1995) | |
Acaulospora koskei is a species of fungus in the family Acaulosporaceae.[1] It forms arbuscular mycorrhiza and vesicles in roots. Found in Poland, where it was collected from soil under Ammophila arenaria, it was described as a new species in 1996.[2]
Acaulospora koskei is an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus named by Janusz Błaszkowski in 1993 in honour of the American mycologist Richard E. Koske. Błaszkowski recovered this fungus during surveys of Poland's coastal dunes in the early 1990s. It was formally described as a new species in 1993 (published in 1994) in the journal Mycological Research. A. koskei belongs to Acaulospora, a genus characterized by spores borne laterally on a stalked saccule (a small, sac-like structure).[2]