Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Ascomycetes >> Order: Hypocreales | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Fusarium equiseti | |||
Author: | Fusarium equiseti (Corda) Sacc. Sylloge Fung. 4: 707-708, 1886. |
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Description: | On PDA, growth is rapid, with discrete bright orange sporodochia formed in dense, white to tan, aerial mycelium. Colonies reach 5.1 cm diameter for 4 days at 24℃. From below the cultures are tan to brown in color and with brown flecks. Microconidia are oval and present in the aerial mycelium. Macroconidia produced from monophialides, strongly septate, thick-walled, sickle-shaped with a distinctive curvature, and with a very long and whip-like apical cell and distinctly foot-shaped basal cell, mostly 3-5 septate, 26.0-85.4 × 3.5-5.0 μm. Chlamydospores are abundant, rough-walled, in chains or clumps. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Chungho, January 1986, from leaves of sweetpotato〔Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam〕, NCHU 5381. |
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Habitat: | primarily as a saprophyte or secondary invader. | |||
Distribution: | Cosmopolitan. |
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References: | Leslie, JF and Summerell, BA. 2006; Huang, JW and Sun, SK. 1997. |
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Provided: | J. W. Huang |
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Note: | The fungus has also been isolated from Sansevieria trifasciata Prain in Chungho; Zingiber officinale Rescoe in Chungho; Hibiscus rosasinensis L. in Taichung; Michilia champaca Linn. in Taichung; Avena sativa L. in Wulin farm and Chingjing farm; Gnaphalium purpureum L. in Fooshoushan farm; Cunninghamia lanceolata (Lamb.) Hook in Chingjing farm; Calocedrus formosana (Florin) Florin in Huisun forest farm; Gossypium herbaseum L. in Taichung; soils in Hsinshe, Oluanpei, Lishan and Chingjing. | |||