Growth onYM agar: After 7 days at 25℃, streak culture is orange, smooth, glistening and converx. The edge is entire. Growth in YM broth: After 3 days at 25℃, cells are ellipsoidal. Cells are spheroidal or ellipsoidal. Cell size are (3.0-5.0 ×5.0-7.0 μm), single and in pair. Reproduction by multilateral budding. Dalmau plate culture on corn meal agar: Pseudomycelium is absent.
Taiwan, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, USA, Kenya, Germany, Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Indonesia, Poland, Bhutan, Canada, and Atlantic, Indian and Antarctic Ocean.
References：
Fell, JW and Statzell-Tallman, A. 2000.
Provided：
P. H. Wang
Note：
This species is placed in biological safety level 1. Five species of Rhodosporidium (R. babjevae, R. diobovatum, R. kratochvilovae, R. sphaerovarpum and R. toruloides) have been described with phenotypic characteristics that would classify their anamorphic states as Rhodotorula glutinis. However, the type strain of R. glutinis does not mate with any of the sexual species. Based on our unpublished nucleotide sequence analyses of a partical region of the LSU rDNA, R. glutinis var. glutinis is a genetically distinct species that is more closely related to R. babjevae and R. diobovatum than the other three teleomorphic species.
Phylum：Basidiomycota >> Class： Basidiomycetes >> Order： Sporidiales 
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