 Phylum：Ascomycota >> Class： Ascomycetes >> Order： Hypocreales |
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NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Fusarium lateritium | |||
| Author： |
Conidial state of Gibberella baccata (Wallr.) Sacc. Fusarium lateritium Nees, Syst. Pilze Schwamme: 31, 1817. |
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| Description： |
On PDA, growth is slow, with sparse white to pale peach aerial mycelium and abundant orange- colored sporodochia. Dark blue sclerotial bodies are present in some isolates. Colonies reach 1.8-2.4 cm diameter for 4 days at 24℃. From below the cultures are carmine red, white to pink in color. Microconidia are absent or sparse in most isolates but abundant in some. They are spindleshaped, 0-1 septate, 11.3-20.0 × 2.5-3.3 μm. Macroconidia produced from monophialides in sporodochia, falcate to straight, thick-walled, with a beaked apical cell and a marked pedicellate foot cell, mostly 3-5 septate, 37.5 -60.0 × 3.8-5.0 μm. Chlamydospores are present and formed sparsely. Gibberella baccata (Wallr.) Sacc. is heterothallic or homothallic and the teleomorph is obtained by pairing compatible conidial isolates on Sach’s agar media supporting sterilized rice or wheat straw. In this island, we have only found heterothallic isolates. Asci are cylindrical to clavate with short stalk, measuring 65-80 μm. Ascospores fusiform to ellipsoid, mostly 1 septate, some are 2-3 septate. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Tainan, May 1985, from bark of lichee (Litchi chinensis Sonn.), NCHU 3051. |
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| Habitat： |
on woody plants. | |||
| Distribution： |
Worldwide. |
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| References： |
Leslie, JF and Summerell, BA. 2006; Huang, JW and Sun, SK. 1997. |
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| Provided： |
J. W. Huang |
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| Note： |
The fungus has also been isolated from Macaranga tanarius (L.) Muell in Taichung; Prunus salicina Lindl. in Hinshe; Oryza sativa L. in Wufeng; Sapium sebiferum (Linn.) Roxb. in Chungho; Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers. in Taya; Euphorbia hirta L. in Tanei. | |||