Phylum：Anamorphic fungi　>>　Class： Anamorphic fungi　>>　 Order： Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
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　Scientific Name： Spegazzinia tessarthra
 
   
   
　Author：

Spegazzinia tessarthra (Berkeley & Curtis) Saccardo, Syll. Fung. 4: 758. 1886.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Colonies diameter on Oat Meal Agar larger than 66 mm in 40 days at 25°C, effuse, velvety, colorless to yellowish white, but with conspicuously clustered, black conidia scattered and often confluent; reverse hyaline, yellowish white to black. Mycelium partly superficial, partly immersed, composed of branched, often anastomosed, septate, smooth, hyaline to subhyaline, 0.8-6.0 μm wide hyphae. Conidiophores basauxic, macronematous, mononematous, arising from conidiophore mother cells, with two kinds: a) long, single, narrow, straight to flexuous or sinuous, smooth to verruculose or verrucose, brown or dark brown, paler and tappering towards the base, 17.0-54.0 μm long, 2.4-4.0 μm wide, b) short, smooth to verruculose, subhyaline to brown, 3.8-8.0 × 3.6-5.2 μm. Conidia present two kinds: a conidia usually 4-celled, with spines scattered up to 12.8 μm long, brown to dark brown or black, 34.0-49.6 μm wide (including spines); b conidia (3)4-cells, subglobose, flattened in one plane, crossed or cruciate septate, smooth, dark brown, 12.4-16.0 × 13.2-15.2 μm, 7.2-9.6 μm thick.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan, Huisun, Nantow Hsien, on rotten leaf of Phyllostachys pubescens, 10 Feb. 1993, TNTU 1045.
 
 
 
　Habitat： on rotten leaf of Phyllostachys pubescens.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Australia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malaya, New Guinea, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad, Uganda, U.S.A., Venezuela, Zambia, Taiwan.
 
 
 
　References：

Chen, JL and Tzean, SS. 2000.
   
   
   
　Provided：

S. S. Tzean and J. L. Chen
 
 
　Note： rare occurrence species.