Phylum：Anamorphic fungi　>>　Class： Anamorphic fungi　>>　 Order： Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
　BCRC Number： NO BCRC Number!  
   
　Scientific Name： Epicoccum nigrum
 
   
   
　Author：

Epicoccum nigrum Link, Magazin Ges. naturf. Freunde, Berlin 7: 32. 1815..
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Colonies diameter on Corn Meal Agar larger than 65 mm in 48 days at 25°C, effuse, velvety to moderately floccose, white to olive brown (4D-E4-5); reverse yellowish white to yellowish brown or brown (4A2;5E-F4-5). Sporodochia present. Mycelium partly superficial, partly immersed, composed of branched to anastomosis, septate, smooth to verruculose or verrucose, hyaline to dark brown, 1.5-6.4 μm wide hyphae. Conidiophores macronematous, mononematous, often dense clusters, sporodochia, short, erect or curved, unbranched or branched, pale yellowish brown to yellowish brown, smooth or roughened, 9.6-20.0 × 4.8-8.0 μm. Conidiogenous cells monoblastic. Conidia acrogenous, globose to subglobose, 13.0-23.8 μm, muriform, verruculose to verrucose, yellowish brown to dark brown, often with a paler protuberant basal cell.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan, Taipei City, air, Oct. 25 1992. TNTU 1038. leg. G. M. Nian.
 
 
 
　Habitat： air
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Taiwan, Canada, USA, Nepal, Russia, United Kingdom, Malaysia, Spain, Scotland, Poland, China, India, New Zealand, Venezuela, Uruguay, Zambia, Mexico, Malawi, Czechoslovakia, Korea, Japan, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Germany, Tanzania, Cuba, Switzerland, Australia.
 
 
 
　References：

Ellis, 1971.
   
   
   
　Provided：

S. S. Tzean and J. L. Chen
 
 
　Note： This species is characterized by producing sporodochia and branched conidiophores with monoblastic conidiogenous cells and globose to subglobose, verruculose to verrucose conidia.