Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >>  Order: Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Dendrosporium lobatum
 
   
   
 Author:

Dendrosporium lobatum Plakidas, A. G. & Edygerton, C. W. Mycologia 28:84. 1936..

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Colonies diameter on Oat Meal Agar 18 mm in 6 days at 25°C, effuse, white; reverse white. Mycelium immersed, composed of branched, septate, smooth, hyaline, 0.8-5.0 μm wide hyphae. Conidiophores 17.1-240.0 × 2.1-4.8 μm, micronematous, mononematous, terminal or lateral, straight or flexuous, smooth, hyaline, often with conspicuously, denticle, scattered, up to 13.3 μm long, 3.0 μm wide. Conidiogenous cells denticulate, sympodial. Conidia leaf-shaped or christmas tree shaped, 0-1-septate, smooth, hyaline, 11.7-23.3 × 8.3-12.1 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taipei Pref. on a root of pine tree. 25 Feb. 1991. TNTU 877. leg. J.L. Chen.

 
 
 
 Habitat: on a root of pine tree
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan, Australia, Cuba, U.S.A., Mexico, Venezuela, Solomon Islands.

 
 
 
 References:

Plakidas, Edygerton, 1936; Matsushima, 1971.

   
   
   
 Provided:

J. L. Chen and S. S. Tzean

 
 
 Note: This species is characterized by producing denticulate, sympodial conidiogenous cells and leaf-shaped or Christmas tree sh