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

Chaetomium succineum Ames, Mycologia 41: 445. 1949.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Colonies with a daily growth rate of 5.2-5.6 mm, without coloured exudates, often with a white aerial mycelium; perithecia ostiolate, superficial, pale ochraceous or olivaceous grey in reflected light, (87.6-) 92.19-93.39 (-101.07) × (116.8-) 120.13-130.92 (-144.87) μm; ascomatal hairs numerous, flexuous, undulate or spirally coiled, pale ochraceous or brown; asci obovate-clavate, with short stalks, 8-spored, evanescent; ascospores ellipsoidal-fusiform, often inaequilateral, at both ends attenuated and rounded, brown when mature, (7.53-) 8.42-8.61 (-10.55) × (12.06-) 14.36-14.57 (-16.58) μm.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

NTUCH-0233, from cockroach dung, Jhongli City, Taiwan, Aug. 14, 1995; NTUCH-0245, from cockroach dung, Taipei County, Taiwan, Aug. 14, 1995; NTUCH-0272, from cockroach dung, Taipei County, Taiwan, Apr. 27, 1995; NTUCH-0273, from cockroach dung, Taipei County, Taiwan, Apr. 5, 1995; NTUCH-0320, from cockroach dung, Taipei County, Taiwan, May 24, 1995; NTUCH-0344, from cockroach dung, Jhongli City, Taiwan, Apr. 1, 1996.
 
 
 
　Habitat： Soil, cockroach dung, compost.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

U. S. A.; Canada; Taiwan.
 
 
 
　References：

Arx, JAvon et al. 1986.
   
   
   
　Provided：

B. Y. Hu and H. J. Hsieh
 
 
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