Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >> Order: Anamorphic fungi | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Conioscypha japonica | |||
Author: | Conioscypha japonica Udagawa & Toyazaki, Mycotaxon 18: 31-137. 1983. |
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Description: | Colony diameter on Oat Meal Agar, 47-51 mm in 58 days at 25°C, effuse, plane, zonate, orange white to brownish grey brown; reverse pale orange to greyish brown. Mycelium immersed, composed of branched, septate, smooth, hyaline to subhyaline, 0.8-3.2 μm wide hyphae. Conidiophores micronematous, semimacronematous, mononematous. Conidiogenous cells terminal to lateral or lateral arising directly from the hyphae, percurrent, smooth, hyaline, 4.0-17.6 × 3.2-3.8 μm, with a multilayered cup-like collarette at the apex. Conidia endogenous, obpyriform, obovoid to broad ellipsoidal or elongate-ellipsoid, smooth but with pigments deposited, pale brown to yellowish brown or dark brown, truncated with a central pore at the base, 11.2-20.8 × 5.6-13.6 μm. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Taipei Pref., Wulai, on a rotten herbaceous stem, 22 May 1993, leg. J.L.Chen. TNTU 1103 (dried culture). |
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Habitat: | on a herbaceous stem. | |||
Distribution: | Taiwan, Japan. |
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References: | Chen, JL and Tzean, SS. 2000; Udagawa, SI and Toyazaki, N. 1983. |
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Provided: | S. S. Tzean and J. L. Chen |
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Note: | The conidia of our isolate (11.2-20.8 × 5.6-13.6 μm) are larger than the type species of C. japonica (7-14 × 4.5-10 μm; Udagawa & Toyazaki, 1983). | |||