Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >>  Order: Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
 BCRC Number 32143      
   
 Scientific Name: Aspergillus sclerotiorum
 
   
   
 Author:

Aspergillus sclerotiorum Huber, Phytopathology 23: 306. 1933.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Colony diameters on Czapek’s Agar 5.5-6.0 cm in 2 weeks at 25°C, velutinous, margin low; mycelium white to greyish yellow; conidial heads variable, radiate or splitting into few or many loose columns, cream color to naples yellow (R., Plate XVI); exudate clear to pale yellow; stipes 160-1440 × 3.6-10.0 μm, smooth to very rough, pale yellow to light brown; vesicles globose, rarely elongate, 6.0-32.0 μm in diameter. Aspergilla biseriate, metulae covering the upper 1/2 to the entire surface of the vesicle, 4.9-9.0 × 3.2-5.6 μm; phialides 4.8-8.0 × 1.6-3.2 μm. Conidia globose, 2.2-3.8 μm in diameter, smooth to finely roughened, sclerotia in age 1000-1500 μm in diameter. Colony diameters on Malt Extract Agar 7.0-7.5 cm in 2 weeks at 25°C; conidial heads cream color to naphthalene yellow (R., Plate XVI); mycelium white, floccose; sclerotia present but uncommon, creamy white; reverse cream color. Colony diameters on Czapek’s Agar with 20% added sucrose, 6.5-7.0 cm in 2 weeks at 25°C, floccose; conidial heads colored the same as those on Malt Extract Agar; mycelium white, sclerotia abundant, buff to ivory yellow (R., Plate XXX); reverse white to pale russet (R., Plate XV).
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Changhwa Pref., common species from stored paddy rice, 4 Aug 1986; stored paddy rice, Hsinchu Pref., 24 Jul 1987 (CCRC 32143); soil, Taipei City, 17 Nov 1989.

 
 
 
 Habitat: from stored paddy rice; soil.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan, Israel, USA.

 
 
 
 References:

Tzean, SS et al. 1990.

   
   
   
 Provided:

S. S. Tzean and J. L. Chen

 
 
 Note: A. sclerotiorum is most closely related to A. ochraceus and A. ostianus by sharing conidial heads with some shade of yellow. However, the former can readily distinguish from the latter two species by having larger sclerotia (1000-1500 μm in diameter).