Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Sporidiales 
   
 
 BCRC Number NO BCRC Number!  
   
 Scientific Name: Rhodosporidium fluviale
 
   
   
 Author:

Rhodosporidium fluviale Fell, Kurtzam, Tallman & Buck, Mycologia 80: 560-564, 1988..

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Growth onYM agar: After 7 days at 25℃, streak culture is red to orange, smooth, glistening and raised. The edge is entire. After two weeks at 25℃, the border with tufts of mycelium, thick-walled teliospores form on the hyphae in the apparent absence of mating. The teliospore are spheroidal to subglobose, (7.5-10.0 ×7.5-12.5 μm). Growth in YM broth: After 3 days at 25℃, cell are ellipsoidal. Cell size are (3.5-7.5 ×5.0-9.5 μm), single and in pair. Reproduction by multilateral budding. Dalmau plate culture on corn meal agar: After 7 days at 25℃, true or pseudomycelium present.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

0304, sea water, Fu-Lweng, Taipei, Taiwan, July, 1999.

 
 
 
 Habitat: Sea water
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan, USA.

 
 
 
 References:

Fell, JW and Statzell-Statzell, A. 2000.

   
   
   
 Provided:

P. H. Wang

 
 
 Note: This species is placed in biological safety level 1.