Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >> Order: Anamorphic fungi | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Bactrodesmium longisporum | |||
Author: | Bactrodesmium longisporum M.B. Ellis, More Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes p.68-69. 1976.. |
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Description: | Colonies diameter on Oat Meal Agar 25 mm in 45 days at 25°C, effuse, floccose at the center, yellowish grey, greyish yellow or greyish brown; reverse orange white, greysih orange to dark brown. Sporodochia scattered, black. Mycelium partly immersed, partly superficial, composed of branched, septate, smooth, hyaline to yellowish brown, 0.8-3.3 μm hyphae. Conidiophores semimacronematous, micronematous, fasciculate, irregularly branched, ca. 65.0-94.1 μm long, smooth, hyaline to pale yellowish brown, 1.7-3.8 μm wide. Conidiogenous cells monoblastic. Conidia elongated-cymbiform, often with a thin hyaline, spherical appendage at the apex, truncate at the base, 16-21-septate, smooth, yellowish brown, paler towards the both ends, 85.0-119.1 × 7.8-9.6 μm. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Tayuan Shan, on rotten leaf, 28 Mar. 1986. TNTU 520. leg. J.L Chen. |
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Habitat: | on rotten leaf | |||
Distribution: | Taiwan, Great Britain, S. Africa. |
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References: | Ellis, 1976. |
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Provided: | S. S. Tzean and J. L. Chen |
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Note: | This species is recognized by conspicuously black sporodochia, monoblastic conidiogenous cells and elongated-cymbiform, septate, brown conidia with truncated at the base. | |||