Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >>  Order: Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Trinacrium subtile
 
   
   
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Trinacrium subtile Riess, Fresenius Beitr. Mykol. P. 42. 1852.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Colony diameter on Corn Meal Agar 28 mm in 58 days at 25°C, velvety, more or less loosely floccose at the center, yellowish white to white; reverse yellowish white. Mycelium mostly immersed, partly superficial, composed of branched, septate, smooth, hyaline to subhyaline hyphae, 1.5-4.5 μm. Wide. Conidiophores micronematous, mononematous, integrated, smooth, hyaline. Conidiogenous cells denticulate, sympodially proliferating, lateral or intercalary, 2.5-7.5 × 1.5-2.0 μm. Conidia Y-shaped, smooth, hyaline, the main axis slightly tapering towards the truncate base, 16.0-25.5 μm long, 3.0-4.0 μm wide near the apex, 1.0-1.5 μm wide at the base, 1-3-septate, arms tapering to a rounded apex, 2-4-septate, 13.5-35.0 × 1.5-3.5 μm wide.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan. Huisun, Nantow Pref., on rotten stem, Feb. 10, 1993, TNTU 1057 (dried culture); Tsochen, on a herbaceous rotten stem, June 30, 1997, CTN 88.

 
 
 
 Habitat: on rotten stem or on a herbaceous rotten stem.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan, Caribbean.

 
 
 
 References:

Chen, JL and Tzean, SS. 1999.

   
   
   
 Provided:

S. S. Tzean and J. L. Chen

 
 
 Note: T. subtile is the generic type species. It is similar to T. gracile, which has conidia with a longer main axis (up to 46 μm) and divergent radiate arms (up to 47 μm) (Matsushima, 1975).