Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >>  Order: Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Stachybotrys atra
 
   
   
 Author:

Stachybotrys atra Corda, Icon. Fung. 1: 21. 1837.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Colonies diameter on Oat Meal Agar 44 mm in 56 days at 25°C, velvety, powdery, brownish grey to black; reverse greyish yellow to black. Mycelium immersed, composed of branched, septate, smooth to verrucose, subhyaline to pale yellowish brown, 0.8-4.8 μm wide hyphae. Conidiophores macronematous, mononemaotus, alternately branched; stipes straight or slightly curved, 0-3-septate, granules-walled or verrucose, pale olivaceous brown to dark olivaceous, often paler towards the base, 47.6-80.0 μm long, 3.2-6.4 μm wide slightly tappering towards the apex. Conidiogenous cells discrete, phialidic, crowded at the apex of stipe; phialides 7.2-12.0 × 3.2-6.1 μm. Conidia broadly ellipsoidal or subglobose, 8.0-10.4 × 4.4-6.8 μm, smooth, pale olivaceous brown, becoming verrucose, black when maturation.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taipei City, from air, 13 Nov. 1992. leg. G.M. Nian. TNTU 1030.

 
 
 
 Habitat: from air.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan, UK, Switzerland.

 
 
 
 References:

Chen, JL and Tzean, SS. 2000.

   
   
   
 Provided:

S. S. Tzean and J. L. Chen

 
 
 Note: newly recorded species.