Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >>  Order: Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Didymobotryum verrucosum
 
   
   
 Author:

Didymobotryum verrucosum Hino & Katumoto, Bull. Fac. Agric Yamaguti Univ. 10: 118. 1959.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Colonies effuse, black, hairy. Mycelium immersed. Stroma present. Conidiophores macronematous, synnematous; synnemata simple to branched or crowded, straight, black, 500-1,254 μm high, 63.5-278.0 μm wide at the conidial heads, 26-83 μm wide at the base, composed of closely compact, branched, septate, smooth, dark olivaceous brown or yellowish brown hyphae, paler and swollen near the apex, 2-3 μm wide. Conidigenous cells monotretic, integrated or discrete, terminal or lateral, cylindrical or clavate, truncate at the base, thick-walled, dark brown, roughened or verrucose, 6.5-11.5 μm long, 4-6 μm wide, often with a distinct pore 0.4-0.8 μm wide at the apex. Conidia catenate, dry, clavate, cylindrical rounded at the end, ellipsoidal or irregularly shaped, 1-septate, verrucose, thick-walled, pale dark, olivaceous brown, 10.0-21.0 × 5.0-7.0 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taoyuan Hsien, on a decaying culm of bamboo, 10 May 1991, leg. J.L. Chen. TNTU 979.

 
 
 
 Habitat: on a decaying culm of bamboo.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Chen, JL and Tzean, SS. 1999; Ellis, MB. 1963.

   
   
   
 Provided:

S. S. Tzean and J. L. Chen

 
 
 Note: newly recorded species.