 Phylum：Anamorphic fungi >> Class： Anamorphic fungi >> Order： Anamorphic fungi |
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 BCRC Number： |
NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Helicosporium guianense | |||
| Author： |
Helicosporium guianense Linder, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 16:280-281. 1929.. |
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| Description： |
Colonies diameter on Oat Meal Agar 28 mm in 31 days at 25°C, velvety, powder, greyish yellow to olive brown (4C-F5-7); reverse brownish orange to yellowish brown or dark brown (5C-F4-5). Mycelium mostly immersed composed of branched, septate, smooth, hyaline to brown, 1.2-5.0 μm wide hyphae. Conidiophores macronematous, mononematous, single or crowded, branched, erect, often with sterile and setiform at the apex dark brown paler towards the apex, septate, smooth, 104.0-448.0 × 3.2-5.8 μm. Conidiogenous cells polyblastic, sympodial, with denticle scattered. Conidia helicoid, up to 14-septate, smooth, colorless or subhyaline; filament 1.6-3.3 μm wide; short conidiophores often present, simple to branched or directly raised from hyphae, hyaline to pale brown, 13.0-44.0 μm long. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Tainan County, on a decaying stem, Nov. 2 1991. TNTU 1020. leg. J.L. Chen. |
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| Habitat： |
on a decaying stem | |||
| Distribution： |
Taiwan, Australia, Hong Kong, India, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles. |
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| References： |
Chang, 1989; Goos, 1989. |
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| Provided： |
S. S. Tzean and J. L. Chen |
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| Note： |
This species is characterized by producing simple or crowded, setiform conidiophores with polyblastic, sympodial, denticulate conidiogenous cells and helicoid conidia. | |||