Phylum：Ascomycota　>>　Class： Ascomycetes　>>　 Order： Eurotiales 
   
 
　BCRC Number： 32305      
   
　Scientific Name： Eurotium cristatum
 
   
   
　Author：

Anamorph: Aspergillus spiculosus Blaser, Sydowia 28: 42. 1975.

Eurotium cristatum (Raper & Fennell) Malloch & Cain, Can. J. Bot. 50: 64. 1972.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Colony diameters on Czapek’s Agar 2.0-2.5 cm in 10 days at 25°C, conidial heads radiate, pale dull glaucous-blue to greenish glaucous-blue, or pistachio green to American green, or niagara green to rejane green or bice green (R., Plate XLII, XLI, XXXIII, XVII); mycelium white, to yellow. Cleistothecia yellow; reverse uncolored to dull aniline yellow or dull war-bler green (R., Plate IV). Colony diameter on Malt Extract Agar 2.0-2.3 cm in 10 days at 25°C; conidial heads radiate, puritan gray to artemisia green or slate-olive (R., Plate XLVII); mycelium white to yellow; cleistothecia yellow; reverse near dull primuline yellow or tawny-olive to sayal brown (R., Plate XVI, XXXIX, XXIX). Colony diameters on Czapek’s Agar with 20％ added sucrose 5.0-5.5 cm in 10 days at 25°C; conidial heads radiate to columnar, pois green to leaf green or Russian green (R., Plate XLI, XLII); mycelium amber yellow, wax yellow, strontian yellow or near olive-ocher (R., Plate XVI, XXX); reverse yellow to buckthorn brown (R., Plate XV); stipes 155-560 × 6.4-16.0 μm, smooth, pale brown to brown near the vesicle area; vesicles 10.7-37.0 μm in diameter hemispherical to spherical, occasionally pyriform. Aspergilla uniseriate, phialides covering 1/2 to 3/4 of the vesicle, 4.1-9.5 × 3.2-4.0 μm. Conidia ellipsoidal to subglobose, smooth, pale brown to brown, 3.6-6.2 × 2.8-6.0 μm. Cleistothecia yellow, globose to subglobose, 55-150 μm wide; asci subglobose to near globose, 8-spored; ascospores roughened to con-spicuously spinose, with 2 thin flexuous longitudinal flanges, 3.6-5.5 × 3.2-4.4 μm. Colony diameters on M40Y larger than 9 cm in 14 days at 25°C; conidial heads andover green (R., Plate XLVII) and picric yellow to lemon yellow (R., Plate IV); cleistothecia form conspicuous zonation; mycelium white to yellow; reverse light orange-yellow to light cad-mium yellow (R., Plate III, IV).
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan, Taipei Pref., rare species from stored corn seeds, 26 Mar 1988. (BCRC 32305).
 
 
 
　Habitat： from stored corn seeds.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Taiwan, South Africa.
 
 
 
　References：

Tzean, SS et al., 1990.
   
   
   
　Provided：

S. S. Tzean and J. L. Chen
 
 
　Note： Colony growth rapidly on M40Y, with abundant yellow cleistothecia in conspicuous zonation; ascospores rough to conspicuously roughened, with two thin flexural longitudinal flanges. Conidia under light microscopy are pale brown to brown, but conidial heads are pois green to Russian green.