 Phylum：Anamorphic fungi >> Class： Anamorphic fungi >> Order： Anamorphic fungi |
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 BCRC Number： |
NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Curvularia tuberculata | |||
| Author： |
Curvularia tuberculata Jain, Trans Br. mycol. Soc. 45:539. 1962.. |
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| Description： |
Colonies diameter on Oat Meal Agar larger than 90 mm in 55 days at 25°C, effuse, dark brown to black; reverse black. Mycelium partly superficial, partly immersed, composed of branched, septate, smooth to verrucose, hyaline to pale brown or brown, 1.1-6.8 μm wide hyphae. Conidiophores macronematous, mononematous, simple or rarely branched, flexuous, septate, smooth to verrucose, pale brown to brown, 14.0-142.0 X 3.2-7.2. Conidiogenous cells polytretic, terminal or intercalary, sympodial. Conidia ellipsoidal, 2-4-septate, subhyaline to pale brown at the both end cells, intermediate cell, brown, conspicously warted-walled, 18.0-37.0 X 8.0-16.0 μm. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Penghu Pref., on a herbaceous twig, 21 Nov. 1990. TNTU 873. leg. J.L. Chen. |
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| Habitat： |
on a herbaceous twig | |||
| Distribution： |
Taiwan, India, U.S.A., Pakistan, Tanzania. |
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| References： |
Ellis, 1966; Sivanesan, 1987. |
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| Provided： |
J. L. Chen and S. S. Tzean |
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| Note： |
This species is easily distinguished by producing huge, ellipsoidal, septate, brown conidia with conspicuously wart scattered the surface. | |||