Phylum：Zygomycota　>>　Class： Zygomycetes　>>　 Order： Mucorales 
   
 
　BCRC Number： NO BCRC Number!  
   
　Scientific Name： Thamnidium elegans
 
   
   
　Author：

Thamnidium elegans Link, Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin Mag. Neuesten Entdeck. Gestammten Naturk. 3:31. 1809.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Colonies developing moderately rapidly on PDA to ca. 9.0 cm in diam in 9 days at 24°C, turf sparse, colorless; fruiting heads gray. Sporophores erect, 7.5-20 μm in diam, arising directly from the substrate mycelium, constricted below sporangium, coenocytic at first, later irregularly septate, hyaline, simple or sympodially branched, with three types: 1) only sporangia formed terminally, 2) main axis and primary branches terminating in a sporangium and producing one or more lateral, dichotomous branchlets which bearing terminal sporangiola or 3) only fertile branchlets bearing sporangiola produced. Sporangia globose to subglobose, 50-99 μm in diam, hyaline, wall deliquescent; columellae obovoid, 27.5-45 × 22.5-35 μm, basal collar present. Lateral fertile branchlets arising from the sporophore singly, in pairs, or in verticels of three or more. Branchlets smooth, hyaline, three-dimensionally dichotomously branched four to eight times (mostly six), length and diam of the branches usually diminishing with each successive dichotomy. Spoangiola globose, 10.9-15 μm in diam, usually 4-5 spores, wall persistent, smooth, hyaline, deciduous; columellae hemispherical, 2.0-3.4 μm in diam, smooth. Sporangiospores ovoid to ellipsoid, 3-5 × 5-7.5 μm, hyaline. Zygospores not found. Heterothallic.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

DMM0101, mouse dung, Miaoli City , Oct. 2001.
 
 
 
　Habitat： null
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Cosmopolitan.
 
 
 
　References：

Benny, GL. and Benjamin, RK. 1993; Benny, GL et al. 1985; Ho, HM. 2002.
   
   
   
　Provided：

H. M. Ho
 
 
　Note： Thamnidium elegans is the type species and the only one species of the genus Thamnidium (Benny, 1992). Based on the above characters described, the author identified this isolate as Thamnidium elegans.