 Phylum：Ascomycota >> Class： Ascomycetes >> Order： Hypocreales |
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 BCRC Number： |
NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Fusarium merismoides | |||
| Author： |
Fusarium merismoides Corda, Icones Fungorum 2: 4, 1838. |
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| Description： |
On PDA, growth is slow, with slimy cream, peach to orange or vinaceous colonies that appear to be wet and have sparse felted mycelium. Colonies reach 0.77 cm diameter for 4 days at 24 ℃. Microconidia are absent. Macroconidia borne from unbranched and branched monophialides are fusoid, straight to curved, with a blunt apical cell and a marked foot cell. mostly 3-4 septate, 30.0 – 40.0 × 3.8 – 4.3 μm. Chlamydospores are present and formed singly, in pairs or in chains. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Chuchi, May 1986, from soil, NCHU 3881. |
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| Habitat： |
in soil | |||
| 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 Oryza sativa in Wufeng; Prunus salicina Lindl. in Hoping; soils in Tahu and Hsinshe. | |||