Sporocarps reddish brown, brown or dark brown, globose, subglobose or ellipsoidal, 200-300 × 180-280 μm, with chlamydospores formed radially in a single, tightly packed layer around a central plexus of hyphae. Peridium lacking. Chlamydospores 40-85 (-105) × (17.5-) 22-42.5 (-55) μm, clavate, cylindro-clavate, triangular or irregular, with or without a septum at the spore base. Chlamydospore wall laminate or single, with a hyaline, separable outer layer (ca. 1 μm), yellow, yellow- brown, sometimes olive-brown, (4-)7.5-22.5 (-25) μm thick at the apex, 1.5-5 μm thick at the sides, generally thickest at the apex.
Specimens：
1. Taiwan: Chi-tou, Holotype, from the rhizosphere of Crassocephalum rabens (Juss. ex Jacq.) S. Moore, Wu-8508205; 2. Taiwan: Chi-tou, from the rhizosphere of Colocasia formosanum, Wu-8607154; 3. Taiwan: Taipei, from the rhizosphere of unknown host, Wu-850810; 4. Taiwan: Tainan, from the rhizosphere of orange (Citrus sinensis Osb.), Wu-850724.
Habitat：
Rhizosphere of Crassocephalum rabens (Juss. ex Jacq.) S. Moore, Colocasia formosanum, unknown host, orange (Citrus sinensis Osb.).
Distribution：
Taiwan.
References：
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Provided：
C. G. Wu
Note：
Sclerocystis taiwanensis is very similar to S. rubiformis. However, the spores of former species are tightly packed around a central plexus which is formed by the fusion of more than one monohyphal stalk. Spores of the latter are only loosely arranged around a broad, thick-walled stellate cell. Sclerocystis taiwanensis was recently isolated from Korea (Koo et al., 1992; Eom et al., 1992) and Philippines (personal communication).
Keys to the species of Sclerocystis
1. Sporocarps not enclosed in a peridium 2
1. Sporocarps enclosed in a peridium 4
2. Sporocarps with a monohyphal stalk; chlamydospores raidally arranged on a broad, thick-walled plexal cell S. rubiformis
2. Sporocarps with more monohyphal stalks; plexus not a broad, thick- walled cell; chlamyspores thightly arranged side by side 3
3. Sporocarps relatively small, <300 μm; chlamydospore with a separable hyaline outer wall S. taiwanensis
3. Sporocarps large up to 800 μm; chlamydospore without a separable hyaline outer wall S. clavispora
4. Peridium composed of a layer of club-shaped cells S. liquidambaris
4. Peridium composed of interwoven hyphae 5
5. Sporocarps not hemispherical; peridium showing sinuous feature; if indistinct, spores with varialbe thickness S. sinuosa
5. Sporocarps hemispherical, with a hyphal stalk, which may connect into a column or branched appearance S. coremioides
Phylum：Zygomycota >> Class： Zygomycetes >> Order： Glomales 
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