TITLE A new species of Lambdasporium from Taiwan
AUTHOR J.L. Chen
Department of Hospital and Health Care Administration, Chia-Nan College of Pharmacy &
Science, Tainan 717, Taiwan

W.S. Lin
Department of Hospital and Health Care Administration, Chia-Nan College of Pharmacy &
Science, Tainan 717, Taiwan

S.S. Tzean
Department of Plant Pathology, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan
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ABSTRACT Lambdasporium lushanense sp. nov., an interesting hyphomycetes collected from rotten leaves of Taiwan, was described, illustrated, photographed, and briefly discussed with L. viridense and L. wauense. This fungus was also compared with similar speices Curucispora ponapensis, Tricladium angulatum, Varicosporium elodeae and Volucrispora graminea. This fungus can be recognized as a new species, characterized by micronematous, mononematous conidiophores and k-, rarely y-shaped, septate, smooth, hyaline or subhyaline conidia.
KEYWORD Hyphomycetes; Lambdasporium lushanense sp. nov.; Taxonomy; Taiwan;
ARTICLE INFO Botanical Bulletin of Academia Sinica, Volume 41 Number 1 January 2000, page 81-84, 4 pages
PUBLISHER Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China