Basionym: Torula laurentii Kufferath. In Kufferath, Ann. Bull. Soc. Roy. Sci. Mèd. Nat. Bruxelles 74: 16-46. 1920.
Description：
Growth in glucose-yeast extract-peptone broth:
After 3 days at 25°C, the cells are ovoid, spheroidal, globose, subglobose to ellipsoidal, (2.4 –6.4) × (3.2-8.0) µm, single, in pairs, multilateral budding.
Growth on glucose-yeast extract-peptone agar:
Aerobic growth is cream to brownish, mucoid, smooth, glistening or dull and convex or unbilicate with entire margin.
Dalmau plate culture on corn meal agar:
After 7 days at 25°C, primary pseudohyphae are formed or not.
Formation of ascospores:
Ascospores are not formed.
Specimens：
Taiwan, Hsinchu: Exudate of Paulownia taiwaniana, Jan 1991, BCRC 22361. Taiwan, Tainan: Exudate of Araucaria excelsa, Dec 1990, BCRC 22249. Taiwan, Ilan: Soil in wax apple orchard, Dec 1991, BCRC 22541. Taiwan, Tainan: Soil in Lichee orchard, Feb 1991, BCRC 22575. Taiwan, Taiton: Soil in papaya orchard, Dec 1991, BCRC 22797.
Habitat：
Atmosphere, wash bottle in brewery, bronchus of lung patient, Ita1ian, muscatel wine, wheat, maize, palmwine, black oak Quercus kelloggi, grape, tumour, deep-frozen beans, brine bath in cheese factory, fallen leaf, soil, suface of shrimp, leaves of spurge Eu-phorbia balsamifera and E. panaliae, exudate of Paulownia taiwaniana and Araucaria ex-celsa, tropical plants and seawater.
Distribution：
Japan, Swedish, France, USA, Congo, Italy, Netherlands, Canary Islands and Taiwan.
References：
Skinner, EC. 1950.
Provided：
F. L. Lee
Note：
This species is placed in biological safety level 1.
Phylum：Basidiomycota >> Class： Basidiomycetes >> Order： Filobasidiales 
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