Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >> Order: Anamorphic fungi | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Dictyosporium subramanianii | |||
Author: | Dictyosporium subramanianii Sutton, Indian Acad. Sci. (plant Sci.) 94: 239. 1985. Basionym: Dictyosporium. intermedium Subramanian, Hyphomycetes. p.478-479. 1971. |
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Description: | Colonies diameter on V-8 juice Agar larger than 65 mm in 42 days at 25°C, effuse, more or less floccose, with black, granulate sporodochia-like scattered, yellowish grey to greyish yellow (4B-C2-3); reverse greyish yellow to yellowish brown (4B3;5E4). Mycelium partly superficial, partly immersed, composed of branched, septate, smooth or roughened, subhyaline to pale yellowish brown, 0.8-3.2 μm wide hyphae. Conidiophores micronematous, sporodochia-like, smooth, subhyaline to pale yellowish brown. Co-nidiogenous cells holoblastic. Conidia ellipsoidal pale brown to dark brown, smooth, 26.0-44.0 × 16.2-17.8 μm, consisting of triangular basal cell on which 5-7 parallel, appressed arms arise, each arm with 4-8 septate, up to 24.0-37.3 μm long, 5.4-6.5 μm wide, sometimes with 1-6 obovoid, hyaline thin-walled appendage, mostly lateral, rarely terminal. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Taipei Pref., Wulai, on herbaceous rotten stem, 22 May 1993, leg. J.L. Chen. TNTU 1101. |
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Habitat: | on herbaceous rotten stem | |||
Distribution: | Taiwan, Caribbean. |
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References: | Chen, JL and Tzean, SS. 1999; Sutton, BC. 1985. |
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Provided: | S. S. Tzean and J. L. Chen |
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Note: | The Taiwanese fungus is close to Indian fungus which was described by Subrama-nian (1971) and Sutton (1985) in size and shape of conidia. | |||