 Phylum：Anamorphic fungi >> Class： Anamorphic fungi >> Order： Anamorphic fungi |
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 BCRC Number： |
32570 | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Penicillium purpurescens | |||
| Author： |
Subgenus: Aspergilloides Penicillium purpurescens (Sopp) Biourge, Cellule 33: 105. 1923. |
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| Description： |
CYA, 25°C, 7 days: colony diameters 23-26 mm, center deep, subcenter wrinkled, sulcate, velutinous, center somewhat floccose, margin narrow, entire; mycelium white; conidiogene-sis abundant, greyish green (26E2-3); exudate clear, yellowish white to light yellow (3A2-5) or yellowish grey to greyish yellow (3B2-5); soluble pigment brownish orange (5C4-6) to light brown (5D4-6); reverse brownish orange (6C4-6), brownish yellow (5C6-8) or light brown (5D6-8) to greyish yellow (2B3-5, 3B3-5). MEA, 25°C, 7 days: colony diameters 24-28 mm, plane, low, velutinous, center somewhat floccose, margin thin effuse; mycelium white; conidiogenesis abundant, greyish green (27E4-7) to dark green (27F4-7); exudate and soluble pigment absent; reverse greyish yel-low (4C4-6), olive to olive yellow (2D4-7), olive (2E4-7) and greyish yellow (3B2-4). G25N, 25°C, 7 days: colony diameters 9-11 mm, somewhat raised, wrinkled, dense, floccose, margin narrow, thin, effuse; mycelium white; conidiogenesis moderate to heavy, greyish-green (26E3-4, 26D3-4); exudate clear, yellowish white-greenish yellow (1A2-6), yellowish white-light yellow (2A2-4). CYA, 5°C, 7 days: no germination. CYA, 37°C, 7 days: no germination. Conidiophores and conidia: conidiophores on MEA borne mostly from superficial mycelium; stipes septate, apices vesiculate, 18-240 × 2.0-3.2 μm, smooth, thin-walled, strictly monoverticillate, vesicles 5-6 μm, bearing verticils of 6-14 phialides; phialides ampulliform, 7.1-10.3 × 2.4-3.2 μm, collula short; conidia subspheroidal, 2.4-3.2 μm, roughened with striations, more or less thick walled, borne in well-defined, compact columns. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Pingtung County, Kentin National Park, from decayed leaf, 18 Aug 1990. |
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| Habitat： |
from decayed leaf. | |||
| Distribution： |
Taiwan, Turkey, Canada. |
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| References： |
Tzean, SS et al. 1994. |
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| Provided： |
S. S. Tzean and S. C. Chiu |
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| Note： |
rare species, voucher culture CCRC 32570. | |||