Purpureocillium lavendulum

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Purpureocillium lavendulum
Purpureocillium lavendulum
Purpureocillium lavendulum
Purpureocillium lavendulum


Holotype:

VENEZUELA, Caracas, from soil, 2008, C. Hartung, S. Mata-Essayag, holotype IMI 500328, ex-type living culture CBS 128677 and FMR 10376.


Habitat:

Soil.


Host:

Soil.


Culture characteristics:

Colonies on PDA attaining a diam of 30–40 mm in 14 d, purplish grey, cottony with high mycelial density, margins regular, radially sulcate, numerous conidiophores resulting in a powdery texture, colony reverse producing a light yellow diffuse pigment. Vegetative hyphae smoo. Conidiophores forming verticillate branches with terminal whorls of three to six phialides or singly arising from hyphae. Phialides awl-shaped, cylindrical ellipsoidal or swollen basal portion into distinct neck, 5–15 × 2–3 μm. Conidia subglobose with apiculate base or limoniform, 2–3.5 × 2–3 mm, dry, in long chain.




Reference:

  • Perdomo H, Cano J, Gené J, et al. (2013). Polyphasic analysis of Purpureocillium lilacinum isolates from different origins and proposal of the new species Purpureocillium lavendulumMycologia 105: 151–161.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.3852/11-190
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Strain

MH864976

CBS 128677 -