Phylum:Zygomycota >> Class: Zygomycetes >>  Order: Mucorales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Cunninghamella blakesleeana
 
   
   
 Author:

Cunninghamella blakesleeana Lendn., Bull. Soc. bot. Gen?ve, 2 s?r. 19: 234. 1927.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Colonies at 25℃ spreading rapidly, white to light buff on maturity, not growing at 40℃; sporangiophores erect, with solitary, opposite or verticillate branches; terminal vesicles spherical to obovate, 14.8-42 μm in width, average 25.6 μm, lateral vesicles of similar shape as terminal ones but smaller in size, 8-32 μm in width, average 18.4 μm; sporangiola hyaline, spherical to ellipsoidal, 7.8-19.2 × 7.5-16.8 μm in diameter, average 11.3 × 10.9 μm, smooth to minutely echinulate, spines up to 1.6 μm in length; Chlamydospores subglobose to ellipsoidal, average 22 × 19.1 μm in diameter; zygosporangia spherical to subglobose, 46.4-54.4 × 41.6-49.6 μm in diameter, average 49.5 × 45.3 μm, light reddish brown, warted; suspensors hyaline, smooth, equal shape, but sometimes unequal, 30.8-54 × 14.8-34 μm in size, average 42.3 × 22.4 μm. Heterothallic.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Kaohsiung: Kaohsiung Park, soil, 09 Aug 1993, No. 19 (+); Pingtung: She-Ting, soil, 16 May 1993, No. 04 (-).

 
 
 
 Habitat: air, seed, soil.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

worldwide distribution

 
 
 
 References:

Baijal U & Mehrotra BS 1980; Cutter VM 1964; Liu CW et al. 2005.

   
   
   
 Provided:

C. Y. Chien and C. W. Liu

 
 
 Note: The sporangiola up to 35 μm long mentioned by Cutter (1964) and Baijal & Mehrotra (1980) are not found in the two strains studied. The paired suspensors of C. blakesleeana sometimes unequal, while other species did not have such phenomenon. So it can be distinguished from other species by this characteristic. The species is newly reported from Taiwan.