Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >> Order: Anamorphic fungi | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
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. |
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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. |
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Habitat: | On decaying bamboo shoots | |||
Distribution: | Peitou, Taipei City, Taiwan. |
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References: | de Hoog, G. S., 1977. |
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Provided: | S. S. Tzean and T. W. Huang. |
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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. | |||