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DESCRIPTIONS OF MEDICAL FUNGI

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Descriptions of Medical Fungi<br />

Curvularia australiensis (M.B. Ellis) Manamgoda, L.Cai. & K.D. Hyde<br />

Synonymy: Bipolaris australiensis (M.B. Ellis) Tsuda & Ueyama.<br />

RG-1 organism.<br />

Morphological Description: Colonies grey to blackish-brown, suede-like.<br />

Conidiophores brown, solitary, flexuose or geniculate, smooth-walled, up to 150 µm<br />

long, mostly 3-7 µm wide. Conidia straight, rounded at the ends, pale brown to mid<br />

reddish-brown, mostly 3-, rarely 4-5-distoseptate, ellipsoidal or oblong, 14-40 x 6-11<br />

µm, smooth-walled to finely roughened.<br />

10 μm<br />

Curvularia australiensis showing sympodial development of pale brown, fusiform to<br />

ellipsoidal, pseudoseptate, conidia on a geniculate or zig-zag rachis.

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