 Phylum：Anamorphic fungi >> Class： Anamorphic fungi >> Order： Anamorphic fungi |
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 BCRC Number： |
32244 | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Aspergillus japonicus var. japonicus | |||
| Author： |
Aspergillus japonicus Saito var. japonicus, Shokubutsugaku lasshi 20: 61. 1906. |
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| Description： |
Colony diameters on Czapek’s Agar 4.0-4.5 cm in 12 days at 25°C, wrinkled; conidial heads radiate, near mummy brown (R., Plate XV); mycelium white; reverse uncolored; stipes 80-1150 × 4.0-12.0 μm, hyaline to pale brown, smooth; vesicles subglobose to globose, 8.0-38.1 μm wide. Aspergilla uniseriate, phialides covering 1/2 to the entire surface fo the vesicle, 4.8-12.7 × 2.5-4.8 μm. Conidia spherical, subspherical or ellipsoidal, 3.7-6.0 × 3.0-5.2 μm, spinose, echinulate. Colony diameters on Malt Extract Agar 7.0-7.5 cm in 12 days at 25°C, floccose; conidial heads radiate to conspicuously columnar, near bone brown or dusky brown to dusky drab (R., Plate XL, XLV); mycelium white; reverse colorless to indistinct yellow. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Chiayi Pref., rare species from stored paddy rice, 26 Jan 1987 (CCRC 32244). |
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| Habitat： |
from stored paddy rice. | |||
| Distribution： |
Taiwan, Netherlands, Panama. |
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| References： |
Tzean, SS et al. 1990. |
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| Provided： |
S. S. Tzean and J. L. Chen |
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| Note： |
Conidial heads on Czapek’s Agar near mummy brown; aspergilla uniseriate; conidia spinose to echinulate. A. japonicus var. japonicus differs from A. japonicus var. aculeatus by smaller vesicles. | |||