Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >>  Order: Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
 BCRC Number 33158      
   
 Scientific Name: Penicillium vinaceum
 
   
   
 Author:

Penicillium vinaceum Gilman & Abbott, Iowa St. Coll. J. Sci. 1:299. 1927.

Subgenus: Aspergilloides

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: CYA, 25°C, 7 days: colony diameters 13-16 mm, center low, deep, radially sulcate, dense, floccose, margin narrow, entire; mycelium white; conidiogenesis sparse; exudate absent; soluble pigment brownish orange, brownish yellow (5C6-8) or yellowish brown (5D6); re-verse light brown (7D6-8, 6D6-8). MEA, 25°C, 7 days: colony diameters 17-19 mm, raised, pulvinate, floccose, margin entire; mycelium white; conidiogenesis light to moderate, greenish grey to greyish green (25C2-3, 25D2-3, 27D2-3); exudate clear, extremely minute, visible only under light microscopy; soluble pigment greyish yellow to reddish yellow (4B6-7); reverse greyish yellow (4B3-5) or greyish yellow to reddish yellow (4C5-7). G25N, 25°C, 7 days: colony diameters 8-10 mm, center low to deep, margin raised, wrinkled, dense, floccose, entire; mycelium white; conidiogenesis light to moderate, greenish grey to greyish green; exudates and soluble pigment absent; reverse greyish yellow (4C4-6) to olive brown (4D4-5). CYA, 5°C, 7 days: no growth. CYA, 37°C, 7 days: colony diameters 14-15 mm, center, raised, pulvinate, velutinous, mar-gin radially sulcate, irregular, floccose; mycelium white, greyish brown, light brown (6D3-5); conidiogenesis sparse; exudate dark brown (7F4-8, 8F4-8); soluble pigment brown (6D7-8, 7D7-8, 6E7-8, 7E7-8) to dark brown (6F7-8, 7F7-8); reverse grey to greyish brown (6-8F1-3). Conidiophores and conidia: conidiophores on MEA borne from aerial mycelium; stipes septate, apices nonvesiculate, 5.5-23.0 × 1.2-1.6 μm, smooth, thin walled, strictly monoverticillate, bearing group of 1-2(3) phialides; phialides smooth, ampulliform, occa-sionally acerose, 4.8-7.9 × 2.0-2.4 μm, collula usually short, rarely up to 2.8 μm, borne in loose, narrow, or irregular short columns.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Nantou County, Puli, Hueisun Forestry Experiment Station, from soil, 20 Sept 1989.

 
 
 
 Habitat: from soil.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan, Utah.

 
 
 
 References:

Tzean, SS et al. 1994.

   
   
   
 Provided:

S. S. Tzean and S. C. Chiu

 
 
 Note: rare species, voucher culture CCRC 33158.