Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >>  Order: Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Akanthomyces novoguineensis
 
   
   
 Author:

Akanthomyces novoguineensis Samson & Brady, Trans. Brit. mycol. Soc. 79: 571. 1982.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Host covered by yellowish white to light yellow (4A2-4) mycelium from which numerous (up to 50) aculeate synnemata arise. Mycelium hyaline, smooth-walled, 2.4-4.6 μm wide, hyphae sometimes slightly swollen and bearing solitary, globose, 4.4-5.6 μm diam. Phialides, with sharply constricted necks. Synnemata arising from all parts of the host, white to yellowish white, narrowing to an acuminate apex, 0.7-4.7 mm long, 110-350 μm wide, bearing phialides in a hymenium along the whole length. Hyphae septate, hyaline, smooth or slightly rough, 2.6-5.0 μm wide. Phialides consisting of a globose to subglobose venter, hyaline, smooth, 5.2-7.1 × 4.8-6.0 μm, constricted abruptly to a distinct, narrow neck, 1.4-1.8 × 0.8-1.6 μm. Conidia in short chains, one-celled, hyaline, smooth-walled, narrowly cylindrical to fusiform, sometimes apiculate at one or both ends, occasionally curved, 6.4-11.1 × 1.4-2.9 μm. Teleomorph not observed.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Nantou County, Yuchih, Lienhuachih, on spider, Arach-nida, Ar.29, 5 Sep 1990, Tzy-Mei Lin; same location, on spider, Arachnida, Ar.33, 29 Sep 1990, W. J. Wu; Nantou County, Chushan, Shanlinchi, on spider, Arachnida, Ar.43, 10 May 1991, L. S. Hsieh.

 
 
 
 Habitat: on spider, Arachnida.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan, Papua New Guivea, Keyavat, Australia, Queensland.

 
 
 
 References:

Tzean, SS et al. 1997.

   
   
   
 Provided:

S. S. Tzean and L. S. Hsieh

 
 
 Note: newly recorded species.