Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >>  Order: Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Ramichloridium apiculatum
 
   
   
 Author:

Ramichloridium apiculatum (J.H. Mill., Giddens & A.A. Foster) de Hoog, Stud. Mycol. 15: 69 1977.

= Chloridium apiculatum J.H. Mill., Giddens & A.A. Foster, Mycologia 49(6): 789 1958.

= Rhinocladiella apiculata Matsush., Icon. microfung. Matsush. lect. (Kobe): 122 1975.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Colonies growing slightly slowly on Potato Dextrose Agar at 25℃, effuse to velvety, pale green, olive-green or pale yellowish-green, reverse dark green. Mycelium partly immersed, composed of branched, smooth to finely rough, septate, hyaline to light brown hyphae, 3 μm wide. Conidiophores erect, solely, brown to hyaline, aseptate or septate, thick-walled, terminal somewhat inflated, with conspicuous scar, 65 - 125 × 3.5 - 4.2 μm. Conidia ellipsoid or fusiform, base pointed or truncated, apical rounded, smooth to finely rough, hyaline to light brown, 7 - 10 × 3 - 5 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Peitou, Taipei City, on decaying bamboo shoots, Oct. 2007.

 
 
 
 Habitat: On decaying bamboo shoots
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Peitou, Taipei City, Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

de Hoog, G. S., 1977.

   
   
   
 Provided:

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

 
 
 Note: R. apiculatum is characterized by solitary, erect, pale brown to brown, thick-walled, septate or aspetate, apex somewhat swollen and denticulate conidiophore. The spores are borne on the conspicuous scars in more or less sympodial model.