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

Stachybotrys bisbyi (Srinivasan) Barron, Mycologia 56: 315. 1964.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Colonies diameter on Oat Meal Agar larger than 70 mm in 28 days at 25°C, effuse, plane to more or less floccose, white to pale yellowish white; reverse pale yellowish white. Mycelium partly immersed, partly superficial, composed of branched, septate, smooth, hyaline 1.4-5.4 μm wide hyphae. Conidiophores macronematous, mononematous, single, simple, straight or slightly curved, septate, smooth to verrucose, hyaline 57.0-152.0 μm long; stipes 46.0-140.0 × 2.6-4.0 μm; phialide in verticils of 1-5, 10.6-15.2 × 3.6-6.4 μm. Conidiogenous cells monophialidic. Conidia ellipsoidal or fusiform, smooth, hyaline to subhyaline, 11.5-22.4 × 5.6-8.4 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taipei Pref., Sanhsia, on a herbaceous rotten stem, 10 Aug. 1993, leg. J.L. Chen. TNTU 1125.

 
 
 
 Habitat: on a herbaceous rotten stem
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan, India, Egypt.

 
 
 
 References:

Chen, JL and Tzean, SS. 2000.

   
   
   
 Provided:

S. S. Tzean and J. L. Chen

 
 
 Note: newly recorded species.