Phylum:Zygomycota >> Class: Zygomycetes >> Order: Mucorales | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Choanephora infundibulifera | |||
Author: | Choanephora infundibulifera (Currey) Sacc., Syll. Fung., 9: 339. 1891. Choanephora cunninghamiana Currey, Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 13: 578. 1873. Basionym: Cunninghamia infundibulifera Currey, Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 13: 334. 1873. |
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Description: | Hyphae 3.4-8.8 µm in diameter. Dried weight of “+” strain (strain No. 041-3) 0.3714 gm after 5days’ culture. Conidiophores with a primary vesicle from which secondary vesicles produced on short stalks. Secondary vesicles persisting and becoming to funnel shape on the primary vesicle after conidia maturing. Conidia brown, smooth, spherical, 11-15 µm in both of “+” strain and “_” strain. Sporangia oval, smooth, light brown, “+” strain 28-80 × 31-60 µm and “_” strain (strain No. 041-1) 25-78 × 31-63 µm. Sorangiospores light brown, oval, smooth and without appendages on both ends, “+” strain 8-28 µm and “_” strain 11-26 × 10-14 µm. Zygospores 39-87 × 31-82 µm with density of 400-950/cm² on malt extract agar and 37-73 × 31-63 µm with density of 16-115/cm² on potato dextrose agar. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Houlong: from fading flowers of Hibiscus rosaesinensis L. var. rubroplenus, 8 Sep. 1985, culture strains 041, 041-1, 041-2 and 041-3. |
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Habitat: | Saprobic in soil and on plant debris. On fading flowers of Colosia cristata L. and Luffa cylindrica (L.) Roem. and from many other woody plants, such as: Hibiscus rosaesinensis L., Hibiscus rosaesinensis L. var. rubroplenus, Hibiscus tiliaceus L., Wistaria sinensis (Sims.) Sweet, and soil under trees of Hibiscus rosaesinensis L, Pyrus sp., Litchi chinensis Sonn., Hibiscus tiliaceus L. and Luffa cylindrical (L.) Roem from Taiwan. | |||
Distribution: | Cosmopolitism as well as from north to the mid-south areas of Taiwan, such as: Banchiau, Sanchong, Taoyuan, Houlong, Nantou, Yunlin. |
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References: | Wu, ML and Chien, CY. 1980; Wu, ML. 1975. |
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Provided: | M. L. Wu |
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Note: | Choanephora infundibulifera (Currey) Sacc. Choanephora conjuncta Couch and Choanephora cucurbitarum (Berk. & Rav.) Thaxter, can form zygospores among interspecies no matter the morphologies of the sporangiospores and conidia are different with each other (Wu and Chien, 1980). | |||