Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >>  Order: Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Amphichaetella echinata
 
   
   
 Author:

Amphichaetella echinata (Kleb.) H?hnel, Sber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-naturw. Kl., Abt. 1 125(1&2):92. 1916..

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Colonies diameter on Corn Meal Agar larger than 55 mm in 23 days at 25°C, effuse, velvety, white; reverse white to pale yellow. Mycelium partly immersed, partly superficial, composed of branched, septate, smooth, hyaline 1.6-6.0 μm wide hyphae. Sprodochia present. Conidiophores macronematous, irregularly branched, smooth, hyaline. Conidiogenous cells sympodial, monoblastic. Conidia broadly ellipsoidal, conspicuously roughened, tubulate-form walled, hyaline, pale yellow in mass 16.0-34.0 × 7.0-16.0 μm, often with conspicuously denticle at both ends, each end with 2 or 4 appendage, appendage often slightly swollen at the apex, rarely 1-septate, 8.0-24.6 × 1.1-1.3 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taichung County, Tungshih, on a decaying leaf of Liquidambar, 16 Jan. 1992. TNTU 1017 (dried culture). leg. J.L. Chen.

 
 
 
 Habitat: on a decaying leaf of Liquidambar.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan, Java.

 
 
 
 References:

Klebahn,1914; H?hnel, 1961.

   
   
   
 Provided:

S. S. Tzean and J. L. Chen

 
 
 Note: Our isolate appears to be similar to the type species of the genus by its unique morphology, pigmentation, conspicuously roughened wall ornamentation and ontogeny, but differs in having larger spore size, 16.0-34.0 X 7.0-16.0 μm versus 15.0-23.0 X 8.0-10.0 μm.