 Phylum：Zygomycota >> Class： Zygomycetes >> Order： Mucorales |
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 BCRC Number： |
32469 32502 | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Mucor circinelloides f. circinelloides | |||
| Author： |
Mucor circinelloides van Tieghem f. circinelloides, Annls Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 6 1: 94. 1875. |
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| Description： |
Colonies brownish gray, up to 5 mm in height, filling Petri dish at 20℃ in 5 days; sporangiophores tall and short, 5.0-17.5 μm in daim, branched repeatedly, tall sporangiophores repeatedly branched near the substrate: sporangia globose, yellow-drab at first, becoming dark-brown at maturity, tall sporangia 90-150 μm in diam, wall deliquescent at maturity, short sporangia 20-90 μm in diam, wall incrusted, breaking at maturity; columellae subglobose to broadly ellipsoidal, 20-75 × 27.5-105 μm; sporangiospores broadly ellipsoidal to ellipsoidal,4.9-6.9. × 7.8-10.8 μm (L/B=1.3-1.8), chlamydospores present; heterothallic; growth and sporulation from 5℃ to 30℃, optimum growth temperature at 25℃. | |||
| Specimens： |
BCRC 32469, from soil, Taiwan, Ping-tung; BCRC 32502, from soil, Taiwan. |
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| Habitat： |
soil, compost, dung of some arctic animals, haw pellets, decaying plant materials, moist hay, air, and river water. | |||
| Distribution： |
in most climatic zones. |
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| References： |
Domsch, KH et al., 1980; Liou, GY et al., 1993; Schipper, MAA 1976. |
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| Provided： |
C. Y. Chien and G. Y. Liou |
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| Note： |
This species is distinguished by recurved sporangiophores, diameter of sporangiophore and obovoid or ellipsoidal columellae. | |||