Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >>  Order: Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Cylindrocarpon fusiforme
 
   
   
 Author:

Cylindrocarpon fusiforme Matsushima, Icones Microfungorum A Matsushima Lectorum (I). p.44. 1971..

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Colonies diameter on Oat Meal Agar larger than 70 mm in 28 days at 25°C, effuse, plane, yellowish white to yellowish brown; reverse yellowish white to yellowish brown. Mycelium partly immersed, partly superficial, composed of branched, septate, smooth, hyaline, subhyaline to pale yellowish or yellowish brown, 1.2-7.0 μm wide hyphae. Conidiophores macronematous, mononematous, single, simple or branched, straight, septate, smooth, tapering, 212.0-408.0 X 3.6-7.2 μm. Conidiogenous cells monophialidic. Conidia fusiform or elongated- fusiform, 3-5-septate, smooth, hyaline to subhyaline, 37.0-67.0 X 6.0-10.0 μm. Chlamydospore catenate, globose, ellipsoidal or pyriform, smooth or verrucose, subhyaline to reddish golden, 7.6-22.0 μm wide.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Sanhsia, Taipei Pref., on a decaying twig of bamboo, 10 Aug. 1993. TNTU 1124. leg. J.L. Chen.

 
 
 
 Habitat: on a decaying twig of bamboo
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan, Japan, U.S.A..

 
 
 
 References:

Matsushima, 1971.

   
   
   
 Provided:

J. L. Chen and S. S. Tzean

 
 
 Note: This species is characterized by longer, monophialidic conidiogenous cells and fusiform or elongated-fusiform, septate, hyaline conidia.