 Phylum：Anamorphic fungi >> Class： Anamorphic fungi >> Order： Anamorphic fungi |
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 BCRC Number： |
NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Stachybotrys dichroa | |||
| Author： |
Stachybotrys dichroa Grove, J. Bot. Lond. 24: 201. 1886. |
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| Description： |
Colonies diameter on oat meal agar larger than 50 mm, velvety, somewhat floccose, greyish white. Mycelium partly superficial, partly immersed, composed of branched, septate, smooth, hyaline or subhyaline, 0.5-7.0 μm wide hyphae. Conidiophores macronematous, mononematous, straight or slightly curved, septate, often swollen and thick-walled at the base, tapering towards the apex, with slightly enlarged apex and several phialides verticil at the apex, smooth, hyaline to pale yellowish brown, 192.0-284.0 μm long, 11.0-15.0 μm wide at the base; phialides discrete, clavate or obovoid, hyaline to subhyaline, smooth, 10.0-13.0 × 4.0-5.5 μm. Conidia ovate, ovoid, often aggregated in black, slimy heads, 7.0-11.0 × 4.5-9.0 μm, hyaline smooth at the first, when mature dark olive, with coarsely black roughened, often truncated at the base. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan. Wulai, Taipei, on rotten stem, July 30 1990. TNTU 943 (dried culture). |
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| Habitat： |
on rotten stem. | |||
| Distribution： |
Taiwan, Netherlands, Turkey. |
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| References： |
Chen, JL and Tzean, SS. 2000. |
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| Provided： |
S. S. Tzean and J. L. Chen |
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| Note： |
The species differs from other species of the Stachybotrys by the ovate to ovoid, roughened, black conidia. | |||