Phylum：Anamorphic fungi　>>　Class： Anamorphic fungi　>>　 Order： Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
　BCRC Number： 32423      
   
　Scientific Name： Aspergillus parasiticus
 
   
   
　Author：

Aspergillus parasiticus Speare, Bull. Hawaii Sugar Planters’ Assoc. Exp. Stn., Pathol. & Physiol. Ser. 12: 38. 1912.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Colony diameters on Czapek’s Agar larger than 9 cm in 10 days at 25°C, distinctly floccose, sporulation abundant at margin; mycelium fimbriate, white; reverse uncolored; conidial heads mostly radiate or splitting into fine columns or rarely globose, small, primuline yellow, or wax yellow to yellowish citrine (R., Plate XVI); stipes smooth to roughened, colorless, 86-2140 × 6.8-24.0 μm; vesicles globose to pyriform, 19.0-94.0 μm wide. Aspergilla mostly biseriate, occasionally uniseriate; metulae covering 1/2 to the whole surface of the vesicle, 9.5-21.4 × 4.8-12.7 μm; phialides 8.3-15.1 × 3.8-6.0 μm; conidia globose to subglobose, 5.5-8.3 × 4.4-7.1 μm, irregularly roughened to very roughened. Colony diameters on Malt Extract Agar 6.5-7.0 cm in 10 days at 25°C, floccose to plane; mycelium white; conidial heads distinctly radiate, occasionally loosely columnar, yellowish oil green, serpentine green to grass green, or cedar green (R., Plate V, XVI, VI); reverse colorless; sclerotia brown black abundant in some isolates.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan, Pingtung Pref., rare species from cicada (Homoptrea), 10 Sep 1988 (CCRC 32423).
 
 
 
　Habitat： from cicada.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Taiwan, Australia, Brazil.
 
 
 
　References：

Tzean, SS et al. 1990.
   
   
   
　Provided：

S. S. Tzean and J. L. Chen
 
 
　Note： On Czapek’s Agar conidial heads primuline yellow to yellowish citrine, vesicles globose to pyriform; conidia large, irregularly roughened to very roughened. On Malt Ex-tract Agar conidial heads yellowish oil green to cedar green.