Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >>  Order: Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Arxiella terrestris
 
   
   
 Author:

Arxiella terrestris Papendorf, Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. 50:73. 1967..

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Colonies diameter on Oat Meal Agar larger than 90 mm in 43 days at 25°C, effuse, more or less floccose at the margin, uncolor, pale yellowish grey to yellowish brown; reverse hyaline to light brown or brownish orange. Mycelium partly immersed, partly superficial, composed of branched, septate, smooth or roughened, hyaline to yellowish brown, 1.7-8.3 μm wide hyphae. Conidiophores micronematous, mononematous, simple or irregularly branched, straight or flexuous, septate, smooth to roughened, hyaline to yellowish brown. Conidiogenous cells blastic, sympodial, termianal or intercalary. Conidia borne in single or short chain, pirate- shaped or reniform, with end obliquely cornuted at the both sides, 1-septate, hyaline to subhyaline, smooth, 10.8-20.0 × 3.3-5.0 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Kaohsiung Pref., on rotten leaf, 6 Jul. 1986. TNTU 584. leg. J.L. Chen.

 
 
 
 Habitat: on rotten leaf
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan, Cuba, Australia, Japan.

 
 
 
 References:

Papendorf, 1967; Matsushima, 1971; Hughes and Kendrick, 1968.

   
   
   
 Provided:

S. S. Tzean and J. L. Chen

 
 
 Note: A. terrestris is distinctly characterized by pirate-shaped, hyaline conidia with end obliquely cornuted at the both sides.