Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >> Order: Anamorphic fungi | ||||
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Scientific Name: | Acremonium implicatum | |||
Author: | Acremonium implicatum J.C. Gilman & E.V. Abbott) Gams, W. 1975. Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. 64, 394. ?Paecilomyces terricola J.H. Mill., Giddens & A.A. Foster) Onions & G.L. Barron, Mycol. Pap. 107: 10 1967. ?Acremonium terricola J.H. Mill., Giddens & A.A. Foster) W. Gams, Cephalosporium-artige Schimmelpilze (Stuttgart): 67 1971. |
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Description: | Colonies growing rather slowly on Potato Dextrose Agar at 25℃, obtaining diameter 1.2 cm for 10 days, flat, dusty, floccose rarely, yellow, grayish-yellow or pale orange, reverse grayish- yellow. Mycelium partly immersed, composed of branched, smooth, septate, delicated, hyaline hyphae, 2 - 3 μm wide. Conidiophore erect, simple, integrated, awl=shaped, phialidic, elongarte, thin-walled, tapering, 1 - 2 μm at the base, 0.5 - 1 μm at tip, 23 - 32 × 2 - 3 μm. Conidia slender, fusiform, both ends inconspicuous truncated, hyaline, smooth, adhering in long dry chain, 6.1 - 8 × 1.9 - 2.2 μm. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Changha County, in soil, Feb. 2007. |
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Habitat: | Soil. | |||
Distribution: | Changha, Taiwan |
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References: | Gams, W. 1975. |
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Provided: | S. S. Tzean and T. W. Huang. |
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Note: | A. implicatum differs in some other members in the Acremonium genus by producing catelate cylindrical somewhat truncated conidia. | |||