Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >>  Order: Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Cordana musae
 
   
   
 Author:

Cordana musae Zimm. H?hnel, Zentbl. Bakt. Parasitkde, Abt. 2, 60:7. 1923..

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Colonies diameter on Oat Meal Agar 25 mm in 43 days at 25°C, effuse, plane, pinkish white to light orange; reverse pinkish white to light orange. Mycelium almostly immersed, composed of branched, septate, hyaline, smooth, 0.8-3.7 μm wide hyphae. Conidiophores macronematous, mononematous, simple, straight or flexuous, smooth, pale yellowish brown to yellowish brown, septate, 36.5-192.0 X 4.4-6.4 μm. Conidiogenous cells polyblastic, denticulate, sympodial, terminal or intercalary. Conidia obovoid, pyriform or elongated-obovoid, pale yellowish brown to pale brown, smooth, 1-septate, rounded at the apex, with a hilum at the base, 7.1-16.7 X 4.3-5.6 μm, often slightly constricted at the septate.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, National Taiwan University campus, Taipei City, on rotten stem, 28 Feb. 1991. TNTU 973. leg. J.L. Chen.

 
 
 
 Habitat: on rotten stem
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan, Venezuela, Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Haiti, Mexico, Panama, S. Africa, China, Brunei, Malaysia, New Caledonia, Dominican Republic, Australia, Thailand, Somalia, India, Hong Kong, Papua New Guinea, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Zimbabwe.

 
 
 
 References:

Ellis, 1971.

   
   
   
 Provided:

J. L. Chen and S. S. Tzean

 
 
 Note: This is a wide distribution species. It is recognized by polyblastic, denticulate, sympodial conidiogeous cells and elongated-obovoid, 1-septate, brown conidia with a hilum at the base.