Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >>  Order: Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
 BCRC Number 32574      
   
 Scientific Name: Penicillium citreonigrum
 
   
   
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Subgenus: Aspergilloides

Penicillium citreonigrum Dierckx, Annls Soc. Scient. Brux. 25: 86. 1901.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: CYA, 25°C, 7 days: colony diameters 25-27 mm, center raised, subcenter somewhat depressed, sulcate, dense floccose of velutinous, margin entire; mycelium white, yellowish grey (2B2-3), light yellow (1A4-5), greyish yellow (1B3-5); conidiogenesis light to moder-ate, greyish green (1D3-5) to olive (1E3-5); exudate clear, pale yellow to light yellow (1A3-5); soluble pigments faint, greyish-yellow (3B4-6); reverse greyish yellow to dark yellow (4C5-8), olive brown (4D5-8), yellowish grey or greyish yellow (3B2-3). MEA, 25°C, 7 days: colony diameters 17-19 mm, center raised, floccose, subcenter, margin more or less deep, velutinous, narrow, white; mycelium white; conidiogenesis abundant, mostly superficial, sometimes aerial, dark green (27F4-6, 26F3-4) to greyish green (27F4-6); exudate and soluble pigment absent; reverse greyish yellow (3C3-4) to yellowish grey (3B2-3). G25N, 25°C, 7 days: colony diameters 8-13 mm, center raised, pulvinate, floccose, margin entire, broad, white; mycelium white; exudate and soluble pigment absent; reverse greyish yellow to reddish yellow (4B3-7, 4C3-7). CYA, 5°C, 7 days: no germination. CYA, 37°C, 7 days: germination, with restricted growth, occasionally forming 1.5-2.5 mm colonies, white. Conidiophores and conidia: conidiophores on MEA borne mostly from surface, rarely from aerial mycelium; stipes septate, apices non-vesiculate, 9.5-63.5 × 1.5-2.4 μm, smooth, thin-walled, monoverticillate, sometimes biverticillate, bearing 2-3 verticils of metulae of (2)3-13 phialides; metulae 8.9-22.2 × 1.0-2.8 μm, smooth; phialides ampulliform, smooth, 5.5-7.9 × 2.0-2.4 μm, mostly with short collula; conidia subspheroidal, (1.2)2.0-2.4 μm, smooth, borne in compact, defined chains.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Pingtung County, Linlo, from rice seed, 6 Sept 1990.

 
 
 
 Habitat: from rice seed.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan, Japan, Netherlands.

 
 
 
 References:

Tzean, SS et al. 1994.

   
   
   
 Provided:

S. S. Tzean and S. C. Chiu

 
 
 Note: infrequent occurrence species, voucher culture CCRC 32574