Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >>  Order: Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Hortaea werneckii
 
   
   
 Author:

≡Exophiala werneckii Horta Arx, Gen. Fungi Sporul. Cult. (Lehr): 180 1970.

Hortaea werneckii Horta Nishim. & Miyaji, Jap. J. Med. Mycol. 26(2): 145 1984.

≡Cladosporium werneckii Horta, Rev. med.-cirurg. Brasil 29: 274 1921.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Colonies growing very slowly on Potato Dextrose Agar at 25℃, slimy or villose, light brown to dark brown, sometime yellowish-brown, reverse black to brown. Mycelium partly immersed, composed of branched, septate, thick-walled, hyaline or dark brown hyphae, 2 - 4 μm wide. Conidiophores micronematous, indistinct, denticle or short, straight or slightly curved, tubular. Conidia arising from conidiogenous cells directly, forming false head or occasionally catenulate, 8 – 13.5 × 2.8 – 3 μm, ellipsoidal or ovoid, smooth, hyaline to pale brown or brown, one celled, occasionally with 1-septate, 6.8 – 9.5 × 3 – 4 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Lanyu Island, Taitung County, on a decaying leaf, Feb. 2009.

 
 
 
 Habitat: On a decaying leaf.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Lanyu Island, Taitung, Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

McGinnis, M. R., W. A. Schell, and J. Carson, 1985.

   
   
   
 Provided:

S. S. Tzean and T. W. Huang.

 
 
 Note: H. werneckii grows very slowly on PDA, with variable color colony, i.e. deep yallow, brown or dark brown. Mostly the conidia were arising directly from micronetamous conidiophore, or from short pegged, or somewhat short, narrow, tubular conidiogenous cells.