Phylum：Zygomycota　>>　Class： Zygomycetes　>>　 Order： Glomales 
   
 
　BCRC Number： NO BCRC Number!  
   
　Scientific Name： Sclerocystis rubiformis
 
   
   
　Author：

= Sclerocystis pachycaulis Wu & Chen, Taiwania 31: 74-75. 1986.

Sclerocystis rubiformis Gerdemann & Trappe, Mycologia Memoir No. 5:60-63. 1974.

= Sclerocystis indicus Bhattacharjee, Mukerji & Misr. Acta Botanica Indica 8:99-100. 1980.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Sporocarps yellow to yellow brown, globose to subglobose, 150-300 × 190-360μm. In young sporocarps, chlamydospores are arranged in a hemispherical layer. However, with the subsequent formation of additional chlamydospores, these immature sporocarps are transformed into globular sporocarps with radially arranged chlamydospores. Chlamydospores are arranged on a thick-walled central plexal cell which is connected with a broad hyphal stalk. Perdium unknown. Chlamydospores yellow to yellow brown, obovoid to ellipsoid, sometimes irregular, 27.5-60 × 37.5-87.5 μm. Chlamydospore wall yellow-brown, 1-5(-7.5) μm thick, with a hyaline, separable outer layer, 0.5-1 μm thick. Usually chlamydospore contents separated by 1-2 adventituous septa below the region of attached hypha. Attached hyphae 7.5-15 μm diam, sometimes with a thick wall up to 7.5 μm that tapers for some distance.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

1. TAIWAN: Chi-tou, from the rhizosphere of Gonostegia hirta (Blume) Miq., Wu-043; 2. TAIWAN: Chi-tou, from the rhizosphere of Polygonum hydropiper L., Wu-044; 3. TAIWAN: Chi-tou, from the rhizosphere of Phyllostachys pubescens Mazel, Wu-045; 4. TAIWAN: Chi-tou, from the rhizosphere of Microstegium geniculatum (Hayata) Honda, Wu-046; 5. TAIWAN: Chi-tou, from the rhizosphere of Asplenium normales Don., Wu-047; 6. TAIWAN: Chi-tou, from the rhizosphere of Erechthites valerianifolia, Wu-8508203; 7. TAIWAN: Chi-tou, from the rhizosphere of Gingo biloba, Wu-8508204; 8. TAIWAN: Chi-tou, from the rhizosphere of Colocasia formosanum, Wu-8607153; 9. TAIWAN: Kenting, from the rhizosphere of Colocasia formosanum, Wu-8605172.
 
 
 
　Habitat： Rhizosphere of Gonostegia hirta (Blume) Miq., Polygonum hydropiper L., Phyllostachys pubescens Mazel, Microstegium geniculatum (Hayata) Honda, Asplenium normales Don., Erechthites valerianifolia, Gingo biloba, Colocasia formosanum, Colocasia formosanum.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Taiwan.
 
 
 
　References：

null
   
   
   
　Provided：

C. G. Wu
 
 
　Note： Spores of this species are in the same size range as those produced by S. taiwanensis (Fig. 19B). The plexal hypha of S. rubiformis is a broad, thick-walled cell around which spores are produced and is different from that of S. taiwanensis because the latter plexal hypha is formed by the fusion of more than one monohyphal stalk. Another similarity between S. rubiformis and S. taiwanensis is that their spores are enclosed by a separable hyaline outer layer. This species has been maintained in pot culture of ACT.