Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >> Order: Anamorphic fungi | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Thermomyces lanuginosus | |||
Author: | Thermomyces lanuginosus Tsiklinskaya, in Ann. Lnst. Pasteur. Paris 13: 500-505. 1899. |
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Description: | Colonies on PDA growing quickly, reaching 78 mm in 6 days, abundant asexual structures, giving a hydrangea pink, mixed with gray green and corinthian pink (dark red purple); reverse dark purple red, (grape wine). Conidial structure as aleuriospores borne on conidiophore, conidiophores 2.6-20.5 × 1.3-3.8 μm, more or less perpendicularly from the vegetative hyphae, unbranched or rarely branched near the base; Slightly curved, swollen at the upper part of conidiophore adjacent to the conidium, giving the conidiophores a flask-shaped appearance, the diameter of swollen part, 1.3-3.8 μm. Spores born single at the tip of the conidiophore, smooth, pale green, globose, subglobose in young; at mature, turning brown to dark brown, and thick-walled with surface irregularly sculptured as wart, verrucose or irregularly reticulate, 10-15 μm. Mature spores have brown pedicel when it separate from the conidiophore, pedicel 0.5-3.2 μm in length. | |||
Specimens: | null |
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Habitat: | Field soil in Tzu-Wei (竹圍) (TAIM-6T58), Tang-Sui (淡水) (TAIM-6T56), Sun-Tzu (三芝) (TAIM-6T511). | |||
Distribution: | Australian, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan |
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References: | Chen, GY and Chen, ZC. 1988; Cooney, DG and Emerson, R. 1964; Pugh, GJF et al. 1964. |
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Provided: | K. Y. Chen |
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Note: | null | |||