Phylum:Zygomycota >> Class: Zygomycetes >> Order: Zoopagales | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Rhizopus stolonifer | |||
Author: | Rhizopus stolonifer (Ehrenb.:Fr. ) Vuillemin, Revue mycol. 24: 54. 1902. Basionym: Mucor stolonifer Ehrenberg, Silvae Mycol. Berol. S. 25. 1818. |
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Description: | Turf growing on SMA at 25°C at first white, 2 weeks later becoming gray and after 1 month brownish black. Stolons at first white later brown. Rhizoids well developed. Sporangiophores erect without branch, at first white later becoming brown, 1-5 as a group originating from the opposite side of rhizoids, 900-2700 μm in length, 22-32 μm in diam, at first white, black when mature. Sporangia globose, 173-235 μm in diam, sporangial wall smooth, easily dissolved when mature. Columellae globose, smooth, 153-163 μm in diam. After spores dispersed, columellae mostly depressed to become hemi-globose. Sporangiospores globose-ellipsoidal- angular , with many striations running over the surface mainly parallel to the long axis, gray, 7.5-9.6 × 4.3-7.5 μm. Heterothallic. Zygospores observed, black, globose-subglobose, 116.0-185.0 μm in diam, wall-thick, warted. | |||
Specimens: | Rh01(+), from air, Taipei city, June, 1984 ; Rh07 (-) from air, Hsinchu county, June, 1984. |
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Habitat: | null | |||
Distribution: | Cosmopolitan. |
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References: | Ho, HM. 1985. |
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Provided: | H. M. Ho |
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Note: | The author identified these isolates followed the key in Schipper’s monograph. These isolates have common features of Rhizopus stolonifer, such as (a). sporangiophores often more than 1 mm in length; (b). rhizoids with secondary branching; (c). sporangia often over 100 μm in diam; (d). no growth at 36 oC; (e). heterothallic. | |||