Phylum：Anamorphic fungi　>>　Class： Anamorphic fungi　>>　 Order： Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
　BCRC Number： 32312      
   
　Scientific Name： Aspergillus puniceus
 
   
   
　Author：

Aspergillus puniceus Kwon & Fennell, apud Raper & Fennell, Genus Aspergillus: 547. 1965.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Colony diameters on Czapek’s Agar 3.5-4.0 cm in 14 days at 25°C, floccose; conidial heads radiate to loosely columnar, pale orange-yellow to capucine buff (R., Plate, III); mycelium white, pale viridine yellow, sulphur yellow to martius yellow, maize yellow or salmon-buff to light ochraceous-salmon (R., Plate V, III, XIV, V); exudate clear to yellow; soluble pig-ment yellow; reverse naphthalene yellow, barium yellow, amber yellow to empire yellow, or bittersweet orange to burnt sienna, mahogany red (R., Plate XVI, III, IV, II). Colony diameters on Malt Extract Agar 3.5-4.0 cm in 14 days at 25°C, plane to floccose; conidial heads radiate to columnar, light hellebore green, or drab to cinnamon-drab (R., Plate XVII, XLVI); mycelium white to greyish white; exudate ox-blood red (R., Plate I); reverse cream-buff to dull buffy olive; stipes 37-510 × 2.4-10.0 μm, smooth, brown; vesicles subglobose to ellipsoidal or rarely pyriform, 4.4-24 μm wide. Aspergilla biseriate, metulae covering 1/2 to 4/5 of the vesicle, 4.0-7.1 × 2.5-6.0 μm, phialides 4.7-7.5 × 2.4-3.7 μm. Conidia globose, 2.5-4.3 μm in diameter, finely rough to rough. Hulle cells elongate to irregularly twisted, aggregated into masses, white, becoming yellow in age.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan, Taipei Pref., rare species from soil, Sheauyoukeng, 12 June 1989 (CCRC 32312).
 
 
 
　Habitat： from soil.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Taiwan, Costalzica, Zarcero, Belgium.
 
 
 
　References：

Tzean, SS et al. 1990.
   
   
   
　Provided：

S. S. Tzean and J. L. Chen
 
 
　Note： A. puniceus is characterized by having pale viridine yellow to light ochraceous-salmon colonies on CZ; subglobose to ellipsoidal vesicle and irregularly twisted Hulle cells on MEA. A. puniceus in having similar microscopic feature to A. ustus, but the latter having grey brown colonies instead.