 Phylum：Zygomycota >> Class： Zygomycetes >> Order： Mortierellales |
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 BCRC Number： |
NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Mortierella sp. | |||
| Author： |
Mortierella sp. Coem., Bull. Acad. R. Sci. Belg., Cl. Sci., s?r. 2 15: 288, 536 1863. |
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| Description： |
Colonies growing slightly fast on Potato Dextrose Agar at 25℃, floccose or effuse, white to cream white, reverse white. Mycelium superficial, floccose, composed of branched, thin-walled, smooth, hyaline, sparsely septate hyphae, approximately 7 μm wide. Sporangiophores erect, arising from aerial mycelium, hyaline, smooth, non-septate, often branched 2 to 3 times, 65 - 80 × 8 - 10 μm, tapering toward the tips, apex sharp, 1 μm wide, base swollen, 10 μm wide,. Sporangiole unicellular, sporngiospore 1-celled, globose, hyaline, thick-walled, echinulate, 9 - 15 μm in diam. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Hapen, Taipei County, on a decaying leaf, Apr. 2008. |
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| Habitat： |
On decaying leaf | |||
| Distribution： |
Hapen, Taiwan. |
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| References： |
O’Donnell, K. L., 1979. |
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| Provided： |
S. S. Tzean and T. W. Huang |
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| Note： |
The Mortierella sp. on decaying leaf isolated from Taiwan was unique by producing monospored sporangiole on extremely attenuated sporangiophore, with very narrow and sharp tip. The global feature of the current Mortierella isolate was somewhat similar to Mortierella bisporalis, but the latter the sporangiole containing 2-spores, in addition, the shape and the size of the sporangiospore were markedly different. The rDNA (ITS1-5.8S-ITS2) sequence identity index of the Morterella sp also showed high similarity to most of Morterella species deposited in NCBI GenBank database. | |||