Phylum：Anamorphic fungi　>>　Class： Anamorphic fungi　>>　 Order： Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
　BCRC Number： 32120      
   
　Scientific Name： Aspergillus fumigatus
 
   
   
　Author：

Aspergillus fumigatus Fres, Beitr. Mykol.: 81. 1863.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Colony diameters on Czapek’s Agar 6.0-6.5 cm in 2 weeks at 25°C, velvety, floccose; conidial heads columnar, slate-olive to storm gray (R., Plate XLVII, LII); reverse uncolored, yellowish, reddish or light greenish brown to dark brown; soluble pigment pale reddish brown; vesicles spathulate to pyriform, pale green to olive brown, 6.4-24.0 μm in diameter. Aspergilla uniseriate; stipes 88-440 × 4.0-12.0 μm uncolored to olive brown, smooth, straight to sinuous; phialides covering the upper 1/2 to 2/3 of the vesicle, 4.4-11.2 × 2.0-4.0 μm, colored the same as the vesicles. Conidia globose or ovoid, 2.4-3.8 μm in diameter, smooth to rough, or spinose. Colony diameters on Malt Extract Agar 7.0-7.5 cm in 2 weeks at 25°C, plane or velvety; mycelium white. Conidial heads slate-olive to castor gray (R., Plate XLVII, LII); reverse dull yellowish green; soluble pigment colored as the reverse.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

most common species from sorghum field soil, Tainan Pref., 7 Sep. 1987 (CCRC 32120); soil, Miaoli Pref., 9 Aug. 1987; stored paddy rice, Nantow Pref., 9 May 1988.
 
 
 
　Habitat： from sorghum field soil and stored paddy rice.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Taiwan, Germany, USA.
 
 
 
　References：

Tzean, SS et al. 1990.
   
   
   
　Provided：

S. S. Tzean and J. L. Chen
 
 
　Note： Conidial heads on Czapek’s Agar slate-olive to storm gray, borne in very well defined columns; vesicles distinctly spathulate to pyriform; aspergilla uniseriate; conidia globose to ovoid, very small, smooth to spinulose.