Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >>  Order: Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Curvularia verruculosa
 
   
   
 Author:

Curvularia verruculosa Tandon et Bilgrami ex Ellis, Mycol. Pap. 106:20. 1966..

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Colonies diameter on V8 Juice Agar larger than 50 mm in 5 days at 25°C, effuse, velvety or somewhat floccose in the center, olive; reverse olive to black. Mycelium almostly immersed, composed of branched, septate, hyaline to brown, smooth, 0.8-10.0 μm wide hyphae. Conidiophores macronematous, mononematous, simple or branched, straight or flexuous, septate, thick-walled, pale brown to brown, smooth or occasionally verruculose near the base, 39.0-220.0 X 4.0-6.0 μm. Conidiogenous cells polytretic, cicatrized, sympodial, terminal or intercalary. Conidia acropleurogenous, ellipsoidal or clavate, straight or curved, 3-septate, brown or dark brown, verruculose at the middle cells, paler and smooth at the both end cells, 21.0-28.0 X 8.8-14.0 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, National Taiean University compus, Taipei City, on rotton stem, 8 Mar. 1991. TNTU 899. leg. J.L. Chen.

 
 
 
 Habitat: on rotton stem
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan, Israel, Venezuela, Indonesia, Jamaica, Malaysia, Peru, China, India, West Indies, Tanzania, Egypt.

 
 
 
 References:

Ellis, 1966; Ellis, 1971.

   
   
   
 Provided:

J. L. Chen and S. S. Tzean

 
 
 Note: This is a common species, It is recognized by its polytretic, sympodial conidiogenous cells and ellipsoidal, occasionally curved, septate, brown conidia with verruculose at the middle cells.