Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >>  Order: Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Chloridium virescens var. chlamydosporum
 
   
   
 Author:

≡Bisporomyces chlamydosporus J.F.H. Beyma, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 6: 277 1940.

Chloridium virescens var. chlamydosporum J.F.H. Beyma Gams, W. and Hol.-Jech. Stud. Mycol. 13: 21. 1976..

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Colonies growing rather slowly on Potato Dextrose Agar at 25℃, villose, grayish-brown to light brown, radically zonate, reverse dark grayish-brown to dark brown. Mycelium partly immersed, composed of branched, septate, smooth hyaline hyphae, 2.5 - 3 μm. Conidiophores erect, tall, solitary, brown to dark-brown, tip hyaline, collaret, proliferate, smooth to rough, thick-walled, 91.5 - 159 × 3 - 4 μm. Conidia ovoid or ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, forming sticky false-head, 4.6 - 6 × 3 - 3.8 μm. Chlamydospores brown, globose, thick-walled, born on septate or aseptate short stalk, 5.5 - 6.1 μm in diam.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Shuangsi, Taipei County, on dead termite cadaver surface, May 2009.

 
 
 
 Habitat: On dead termite cadaver surface.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Shuangsi, Taipei County, Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Gams, W. and V. H. Jechova, 1976.

   
   
   
 Provided:

S. S. Tzean and T. W. Huang

 
 
 Note: C. virescens var. chlamydosporum can be readily distinguished from other allied dematiaceous filamentous fungi by its tall, erect, deep-pigmented, collaret, conidiophores and proliferate conidiogenous cell, and also by white droplet-like false conidial head and the distinct brown globose, thick-walled chlamydospores.