Colonies at 25℃ spreading rapidly, grey on maturity, not growing at 40℃; sporangiophores erect, with solitary, opposite or verticillate branches; terminal vesicles subglobose to broadly clavate, 15.2-45.2 μm in width, average 27.6 μm, lateral vesicles of similar shape as terminal ones but smaller in size, 11.2-31.2 μm in width, average 19.5 μm; sporangiola hyaline to pale brown, spherical to ellipsoidal, 5-20 × 5-15.4 μm in diameter, average 10 × 9.4 μm, smooth, verrucose or spinulose, spines up to 0.8 μm in length; chlamydospores subglobose to broadly ellipsoidal in shape, average 18.3 × 13.9 μm in diameter; zygosporangia subglobose to broadly ellipsoidal, 45.6-53.6 × 36-48.8 μm in diameter, average 48.8 × 42.3 μm, dark reddish brown, warted; suspensors hyaline, smooth, usually apposed, 33.4-52.8 × 13.2-16.8 μm in size, average 40.8 x 15.3 μm. Heterothallic.
worldwide distribution, mainly Mediterranean and subtropical zones.
References：
Baijal U & Mehrotra BS 1980; Cutter VM 1946; Liu CW et al. 2005; Mil’ko AA & Beljakova LA 1967; Weitzman I & Crist MY 1980; Weitzman I 1984; Zycha H 1935.
Provided：
C. Y. Chien and C. W. Liu
Note：
Because there are no significant differences in the morphological characteristics between C. elegnas and C. bertholletiae, Zycha (1935), Mil’ko & Beljakova (1967), Samson (1969) and Baijal & Mehrotra (1980) have considered them as the same species. However, Cutter (1946), Weitzman & Crist (1980) and Weitzman (1984) have distinguished them as two valid species by their conspicuously different temperature tolerance and branching patterns, as well as the inability to form zygospore when paired. The species can be distinguished clearly from the others by its maximal temperature tolerance below 38℃.
Phylum：Zygomycota >> Class： Zygomycetes >> Order： Mucorales 
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