 Phylum：Ascomycota >> Class： Ascomycetes >> Order： Hypocreales |
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 BCRC Number： |
NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Torrubiella flava | |||
| Author： |
Torrubiella flava Petch, Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. 9: 127. 1923. |
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| Description： |
Infected spider host covered with dense mycelial mat, forming subiculum, powdery to tomentose, 2.5 mm in diam., sometimes margin lanose, yellowish white to pale yellow (4A2-3). Hyphae septate, hyaline, branched, moderately thick-walled, mostly verrucose with minutely granular, sometimes smooth, 2.0-4.4 μm wide, occasionally slightly swollen near septum (up to 6.4 μm wide). Perithecia arising from subiculum, gregarious, ovoid, with papillate ostioles, 520-640 × 260-320 μm, yellowish white, pale yellow, yellowish grey, greyish yellow (4A-B2-3), tomentose, 56-144 μm thick, ostiole papillate, dark blond to yellowish brown (5D-E4), perithecial wall 10-16 μm thick. Asci 8-spored, cylindrical, 340-550 × 4.4-6.4 μm, with thickened perforated refractive cap, 2.4-4.4 μm thick. Ascospores filiform, arranged in parallel or spiral rows, nearly as long as the ascus, hyaline, 0.8-1.6 μm wide, easily disarticulating into partspores. Partspores cylindrical, tapering towards both ends, 4.8-8.7(-11.1) × 0.8-1.6 μm, truncate, smooth, hyaline. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Nantou County, Jenai, Piluchi, on spider, Arachnida, Ar.52, 4 Dec 1991, Y. C. Hsiao; Nantou County, Luku, Chitou, on spider, Arachnida, Ar.115, 22 Aug 1995. |
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| Habitat： |
on spider. | |||
| Distribution： |
Taiwan, Japan. |
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| References： |
Tzean, SS et al. 1997. |
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| Provided： |
S. S. Tzean and L. S. Hsieh |
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| Note： |
common recorded species. | |||