Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >>  Order: Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Pestalotiopsis neglecta
 
   
   
 Author:

Pestalotiopsis neglecta (Th?m.) Steyaert, Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. 36(2): 83 1953.

= Pestalotia neglecta Th?m., Contrib. Flor. Mycol. Lusitan.: no. 343 1880.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Colonies growing fast on Potato Dextrose Agar at 25℃, floccose, effuse, white, reverse white to cream white. Mycelium superficial, composed of branched, septate, smooth, hyaline hyphae, 2-4 um. Sporodochia present. Conidiophores phialidic, ampulliform. Conidia 5-celled, narrow fusiform, intermediate cells brown to pale olivaceous, two adjacent cells dark brown to olivaceous, slightly constricted at septa, 29 - 31 × 6 - 7 μm, apical conic cell bearing a crest of 2 - 3 setulae, 15 - 19 μm, , basal cell obtuse, bearing single pedicel, 4 - 8 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Juisui, Hualien County, on decaying maize, Feb. 2009.

 
 
 
 Habitat: decaying maize
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Juisui, Hualien County, Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Steyaert, R. L., 1953.

   
   
   
 Provided:

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

 
 
 Note: P. neglecta can be distinguished from the allied Pestalotiopsis species by its rather narrow fusiform and longer spores