 Phylum：Ascomycota >> Class： Ascomycetes >> Order： Hypocreales |
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 BCRC Number： |
NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Torrubiella minutissima | |||
| Author： |
Torrubiella minutissima Kobayasi & Shimizu, Bull. Natn. Sci. Mus., Tokyo, Ser. B 8: 57. 1982. |
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| Description： |
Infected spider host covered with dense, pulvinate mycelial mat, powdery to tomentose, sometimes margin lanose, white, orange white, pale orange, light orange (5A2-4), to greyish orange (5B4-5). Hyphae branched, septate, smooth, hyaline, interwoven, 1.2-4.0 μm wide. Perithecia arising directly from the mycelial mat or subiculum, superficial, numerous, minute, gregarious, elongated conoid, slightly attenuated above, with obtuse ostiole, 220-288 × 72-100 μm, (immature perithecia ca. 80 × 36 μm) yellowish white, pale yellow (2-3A2-3), dull yellow to greyish yellow (2-4B3), nearly glabrous, beset on the subiculum, perithecial wall thin, 5.6-9.5 μm thick. Asci immature, slender, cylindrical, 2.8-4.0 μm wide, with slightly thickened perforated refractive cap, 1.6-2.0 μm thick, mature ascospores and partspores not observed. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Taipei County, Wulai, Hapen, on spider, Arachnida, Ar. 5, 9 Aug 1989. |
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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： |
newly recorded species. | |||