Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >> Order: Anamorphic fungi | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Fusarium equiseti | |||
Author: | Fusarium equiseti Corda Sacc., sylloge Fung. 4:707-708. 1886.. |
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Description: | Colonies diameter on Oat Meal Agar larger than 65 mm in 55 days at 25°C, velvety to floccose, white, pale orange white to yellowish white; reverse orange white. Sporodochia persent, pale orange to light orange. Mycelium partly superficial, partly immersed, composed of branched, septate, smooth, hyaline, 1.6-7.8 μm wide hyphae. Conidiophores macronematous, often penicilately branched, smooth, hyaline. Conidiogenous cells monophialidic, occasionally proliferation percurrent; phialides 9.6-21.6 × 3.0-4.0 μm. Conidia falcate, with a pedicellate foot cell at the base and an curved, tappering towards the apex of apical cell, 3-7(8)-septate, smooth, hyaline, 26.0-80.0 × 3.2-5.0 μm. Chlamydospores solitary or in chains, terminal or intercalary, smooth, hyaline to pale yellowish brown, up to 12.8 μm wide. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, National Taiwan University campus, Taipei City, on air, 10 Dec. 1992. TNTU 1026. leg. G. M. Nian. |
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Habitat: | on air | |||
Distribution: | Asia, America, Europe, Africa, Australia, U.S.A., USSR, Middle East. |
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References: | Booth, 1971. |
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Provided: | J. L. Chen and S. S. Tzean |
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Note: | This is a very common species. It is characterized by penicilately branched, hyaline conidiophores, monophialidic conidiogenous cells and falcate, septate hyaline conidia with a pedicellate foot cell at the base. | |||