Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >> Order: Anamorphic fungi | ||||
BCRC Number: | 32423 | |||
Scientific Name: | Aspergillus parasiticus | |||
Author: | Aspergillus parasiticus Speare, Bull. Hawaii Sugar Planters’ Assoc. Exp. Stn., Pathol. & Physiol. Ser. 12: 38. 1912. |
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Description: | Colony diameters on Czapek’s Agar larger than 9 cm in 10 days at 25°C, distinctly floccose, sporulation abundant at margin; mycelium fimbriate, white; reverse uncolored; conidial heads mostly radiate or splitting into fine columns or rarely globose, small, primuline yellow, or wax yellow to yellowish citrine (R., Plate XVI); stipes smooth to roughened, colorless, 86-2140 × 6.8-24.0 μm; vesicles globose to pyriform, 19.0-94.0 μm wide. Aspergilla mostly biseriate, occasionally uniseriate; metulae covering 1/2 to the whole surface of the vesicle, 9.5-21.4 × 4.8-12.7 μm; phialides 8.3-15.1 × 3.8-6.0 μm; conidia globose to subglobose, 5.5-8.3 × 4.4-7.1 μm, irregularly roughened to very roughened. Colony diameters on Malt Extract Agar 6.5-7.0 cm in 10 days at 25°C, floccose to plane; mycelium white; conidial heads distinctly radiate, occasionally loosely columnar, yellowish oil green, serpentine green to grass green, or cedar green (R., Plate V, XVI, VI); reverse colorless; sclerotia brown black abundant in some isolates. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Pingtung Pref., rare species from cicada (Homoptrea), 10 Sep 1988 (CCRC 32423). |
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Habitat: | from cicada. | |||
Distribution: | Taiwan, Australia, Brazil. |
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References: | Tzean, SS et al. 1990. |
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Provided: | S. S. Tzean and J. L. Chen |
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Note: | On Czapek’s Agar conidial heads primuline yellow to yellowish citrine, vesicles globose to pyriform; conidia large, irregularly roughened to very roughened. On Malt Ex-tract Agar conidial heads yellowish oil green to cedar green. | |||