Phylum：Anamorphic fungi　>>　Class： Anamorphic fungi　>>　 Order： Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
　BCRC Number： NO BCRC Number!  
   
　Scientific Name： Curvularia oryzae
 
   
   
　Author：

Curvularia oryzae Bugnic., Catalogue des Cryptogames: 54 1959.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Colonies grow slightly fast on Potato Dextrose Agar at 25℃, effuse or velvety, dark brown to dark grayish-olivaceous, reverse dark grayish-green to dark greenish-olivaceous. Mycelium partly immersed, composed of branched, septate, thick-walled, finely rough, light brown hyphae, 4 - 5 μm in wide. Conidiophore erect, brown to light brown, smooth, thick-walled, sometimes slightly swollen in middle or at tip, geniculate with conspicuous scars, 93 - 400 × 4 - 5.9 μm. Conidia sympodial, brown to dark olivaceous, ovoid or pyriform, smooth to finely rough, thick-walled, 3-septate, 2nd cell larger and darker colored, with conspicuous scars at obtuse cell, 31 - 37 × 20.6 - 27 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan, Lanyu Island, Taitung County, on a decaying leaf and stem, Feb. 2009.
 
 
 
　Habitat： On decaying leaf and stem
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Lanyu Island, Taitung, Taiwan.
 
 
 
　References：

K. Hara, 1959.
   
   
   
　Provided：

S. S. Tzean and T. W. Huang.
 
 
　Note： The C. oryzae isolated from decaying leaf and stem was characterized with erect, somewhat curved, geniculate, pigmented conidiophore, bearing 4-celled pyriform, brown conidia, with secondary cell distinctly larger and darker olivaceous.