Phylum：Zygomycota　>>　Class： Zygomycetes　>>　 Order： Zoopagales 
   
 
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　Scientific Name： Piptocephalis debaryana
 
   
   
　Author：

Piptocephalis debaryana B. S. Mehrotra, Proc. Natl. Sci. India, B. 30 (4): 370-372. 1960.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Cultures growing on Mucor sp. on CMA at 24℃originally hyaline becoming buff at maturity. Sporophores arising from the media, occasionally from rhizoids, at first ascending, becoming prostrate and stolon-like; main stalks at first smooth becoming distinctly longitudinally striate when mature, septate, 12.5-22.0 μm wide, up to 12 mm long; from the main stalk producing a fertile branch system consisting up to 8 successive dichotomously branches, branches of primary dichotomies often relatively short, each giving rise to long branches, 10-18 μm wide, penultimate branches 20-40 × 3-4.2(-5) μm, faintly striate; ultimate branches 4-38 × 3.5-4.5 μm, smooth; head cells deciduous, mainly 4-lobed, (11-)12-13(-15) μm in diam and (7-)8-9.5 μm high, bearing up to 40 merosporangia; merosporangia 22-23 × 3 μm, cylindrical with rounded ends, containing 4 spores; spores cylindrical, 4-5 × 3 μm, smooth; spore head forming a liquid droplet at maturity; zygospores not observed.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

D94032402, parasitized on Mucor sp, isolated from mouse dung, Sindian, Taipei County, March, 2005.
 
 
 
　Habitat： null
 
 
 
　Distribution：

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　References：

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　Provided：

H. M. Ho
 
 
　Note： This fungus is identified as P. debaryana based on the following distinguished characters: spore-heads enclosing in liquid droplets when mature; deciduous, large, lobed head cells; dichotomously branching fertile systems; cylindrical spores and the 4 spored merosporangia. The closely related species P. cruciata van Tieghem differs in having tripartite and quadripartite ramification and longer ultimate branch (Gr?fenhan, 1998; Mehrotra, 1960).