A New Species of Aspergillus


  •  Zongzhou Zhang    

Abstract

A new species of Aspergillus was isolated from the hill meadow soil in Tianzhu, Gansu. On the Czapek’s medium at
20 it produced branching conidiophores, heads pure yellow, hypha septate, footcell not inflating. Sterigmas were ???? in
two series and primary sterigmas were approximately triangle on which 4 bottle structure second sterigmas were present.
At 25???? colony was white and producd abundant sclerotia instead of branching conidiophores.According to the
morphological and culture characters, it should belong to Aspergillus.Through compared with simillar species; here it
was considered as a new species of Aspergillus. Therefore, it was named Aspergillus racemosus sp.n. Type specimens of
the new species are deposited in the microbiological lab of Tianshui Normal University.


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