[1][2] This species primarily exists in wine and brandy cellars in central and southern Europe,[2][3] but can be found in surrounding regions and is thought to be helpful in the wine-making process by some[1] and a hygienic issue by others.

Cladosporiums usually exist on plant material and their spores are often air dispersed, having a large abundance in outdoor environments,[6] which simply isn't the case for Z. cellare.

To prevent any further contention, de Hoog amended the genus Zasmidium to include fungi with undifferentiated conidiogenous cells with wavy branches, "denticulate rachis", and pigmented scars.

[citation needed] Z. cellare shares many morphological characteristics with another fungus, Cladosporium sphaerospermum (commonly found on shower ceilings and can live off of the oil in paints).

[9][10] Large colonies can amalgamate into amorphous structures that optimizes the absorption of volatile compounds from the air, moving away from a more circular shapes and creating sheets of mycelium, especially under very humid conditions.

[1] Since that time it has not spread much, existing primarily in dark, humid, ethanol-rich cellars containing barrel aged wine, brandy or other spirits of central and southern Europe, Hungary, Poland, Great Britain and Nigeria.

[4] Further insights are awaited on this topic before the reproduction of this species is known, but this aspect of its life cycles makes Z. cellare unique among most other Ascomycota due to its difficulty to define by biology.

Chlebicki and Majewska (2010) discovered that this fungus can utilize any volatile, oxygen-containing organic compound including various other alcohols, esters, acetic acids, acetylaldehydes, as well as formaldehyde and thymol.

Z. cellare has no recorded pathological effect on healthy individuals and has long been considered beneficial to human health by traditional, European winemakers who found a correspondence to the presence of this fungi and the elimination of musty odours.

[2] Schanderl (1950) saw it as proof that the volatile food sources of Z. cellare backed up this claim and too considered the presence of this fungus to be beneficial to human health.