Phylum：Ascomycota　>>　Class： Ascomycetes　>>　 Order： Sordariales 
   
 
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　Scientific Name： Chaetomium bostrychodes
 
   
   
　Author：

Chaetomium bostrychodes Zopf, 1877, Abh. bot. Ver. Prov. Brandenburg 19:173. Chaetomium caninum Ellis & Everh, 1888. Chaetomium comosum Bainier, 1910. Chaetomium fornosum Bainier, 1910. Chaetomium caprinum Bainier, 1910. Chaetomium pachypodioides Ames, 1945. Chaetomium guizotiae Tilak & Reddy, 1964. Chaetomium leproplocinum Wener & Cain, 1970.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Colonies with a daily growth rate of 3.3-3.5 mm, usually without aerial mycelium, occasionally with a pale green exudates, reverse uncoloured or green; perithecia ostiolate, superficial, pale metallic or steel grey in reflected light, dark grey to black when old, ovate, obovate, turbinate, ampulliform or cylindrical, (102.2-) 166.76-185.47 (-292) × (146.0-) 220.13-246.68 (-292.0) μm; ascomatal hairs arising mainly from the apical disc, erect, usually spirally coiled in the upper part, occasionally with coiled branches; lateral hairs seta- or whip-like, tapering, septate; asci numerous, fasciculate, clavate, with a long, evanescent stalk, 8-spored; ascospores limoniform or nearly spherical, often slightly apiculate at the ends, bilaterally flattened, hyaline and dextrinoid when young, pale bluish grey or olivaceous when mature, (4.52-) 5.01-5.13 (-6.03)× (6.03-) 6.58-6.70 (-7.54) μm.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

NTUCH-0033, from cockroach dung, Taipei County, Taiwan, Feb. 5, 1990; NTUCH-0239, from cockroach dung, Jhongli City, Taiwan, Aug. 14, 1995; NTUCH-0253, from cockroach dung, Jhongli City, Taiwan, Feb. 7, 1996; NTUCH-0271, from cockroach dung, Taipei County, Taiwan, Apr. 27, 1995; NTUCH-0274, from cockroach dung, Taipei County, Taiwan, May 11, 1995; NTUCH-0314, from cockroach dung, Taipei County, Taiwan, May 1, 1993; NTUCH-0317, from cockroach dung, Taipei County, Taiwan, Aug. 7. 1990.
 
 
 
　Habitat： Soil; cockroach dung; plant debris; dog, goat, hog, roe, wood owl, rabbit and fox dung; paper.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Belguim; Haiti; Germany; Ontario; Alberta; U. S. A.; Taiwan
 
 
 
　References：

Arx, JAvon et al. 1986.
   
   
   
　Provided：

B. Y. Hu and H. J. Hsieh
 
 
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