Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >>  Order: Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Penicillium bilaii
 
   
   
 Author:

Penicillium bilaii Chalabuda, Not. Syst. Crypt. Inst. Bot. Acad. Sci. URSS 6: 165. 1950.

Subgenus:Aspergilloides

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: CYA, 25°C, 7 days: colony diameters 22-25 mm, center raised, crateriform, subcenter radially sulcate, floccose, margin narrow, entire; mycelium white; conidiogenesis light to moderate, greenish white (28-29A2); exudate greenish grey to greyish green (30B2-3); soluble pigment absent; reverse greyish yellow (4B4-5), yellowish white to pale yellow (3A2-3). MEA, 25°C, 7 days: colony diameters 25-28 mm, center raised, floccose, margin low, entire; mycelium white; conidiogenesis moderate, pale green, pastel green (29A3-4); exudate and soluble pigment absent; reverse yellowish white (3A2). G25N, 25°C, 7 days: colony diameters 10-12 mm, with limited growth. CYA, 5°C: no germination. CYA, 37°C: mostly germinated. Conidiophores and conidia: conidiophores on MEA borne from aerial mycelium; stipes sep-tate, apices non-vesiculate, 31.7-49.2 × 1.6-2.4 μm, smooth, thin walled; penicilli strictly monoverticillate; phialides in verticils of 3-8, ampulliform, smooth, 6.3-8.7 × 2.4-2.6 μm, collula abruptly tapering; conidia spherical, subspheroidal to ellipsoidal, 2.4-2.8 × 2.0-2.4 μm, smooth to finely roughened, thick walled, borne in irregular columns.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Nantou County, Lousau, rare species, from soil, 25 Oct 1989.

 
 
 
 Habitat: from soil.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Tzean, SS et al. 1994.

   
   
   
 Provided:

S. S. Tzean and S. C. Chiu

 
 
 Note: rarely recorded species.