Phylum：Anamorphic fungi　>>　Class： Anamorphic fungi　>>　 Order： Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
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　Scientific Name： Paraconiothyrium fungicola
 
   
   
　Author：

Paraconiothyrium fungicola Verkley & Wicklow, in Verkley, da Silva, Wicklow & Crous, Stud. Mycol. 50(2): 331 2004.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Colonies grow slightly slow on Potato Dextrose Agar at 25℃, effuse, white to brownish orange, with black droplets exudation, reverse dark brown to pale brown, diffused pigment lacking. Mycelium partly submerged, partly superficial, composed of branched, septate, smooth to finely rough, hyaline to light brown, thin-walled hyphae, 2 - 3 μm wide. Conidiomata superficial or immersed in the agar, eustromatic, black to dark brown, wrapped by white hyphae, simple or less complex with several cavities meerged, sometimes with ostioles, releasing conidia forming black, slimy droplets. Conidiomatal wall brown, composed of textura angularis tissue. Conidiogenous cell formed from inner conidiomatal wall, narrowly or broadly ampulliform, hyaline, proliferating percurrently 1 - 3 times, with indistinct periclinal neck, 6.2 - 9.5 × 2.9 - 5 μm. Conidia elliposoid or short cylindrical, smooth, straight or slightly curved, light brown, 1-celled, 1 - 2 oil droplets, finely taping to one end or rounded at both ends, 5.3 - 6 × 2.5 – 3 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan, Ilan County, on a decaying wood, 18 Jun. 2009.
 
 
 
　Habitat： decaying wood
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Taiwan, U.S.A.
 
 
 
　References：

Verkley, G. J. M., M. da Silva, D. T. Wicklow and P. D. Crous, 2004.
   
   
   
　Provided：

S. S. Tzean and T. W. Huang.
 
 
　Note： Paraconiothyrium fungicola can be distinguished from other closely related Coelomycetes by its soft, stromatic conidiomata. The inner wall at the base of conidiomata was lined with broadly ampulliform, annelated, phialidic conidiogenous cells, after seceding of brown pycnidiospores, bearing 1 – 3 annulus. P. fungicola resembles three recombined species in the newly erected genus Paraconiothyrium, P. estuarimum, P. brasileuse and P. cyclothyrioides by producing pale to deep brown pycnidiospores. After oozing out of the stroma, the pycnidiospores formed distinct deep brown to olivaceous droplets. Paraconiothyrium is more recently erected by Verkley et al. (2004), mainly base on phylogenetic study by rDNA and SSU mitochondrial DNA sequences.