Serial No. 42
Kingdom : Fungi
Division : Ascomycota
Subdivision : Pezizomycotina
Class : Sordariomycetes
Subclass : Hypocreomycetidae
  Order : Hypocreales
  Family : Hypocreaceae
  Genus : Hypocrea
  Species : rufa
  Binomial Name : Hypocrea rufa
  Author : (Pers.) Fr.
Synonyms :
Sphaeria rufa Persoon, 1794
Anamorph :
Trichoderma viride (Persoon 1794)
Colony colour | : | Whitish to tan to reddish brown and with age becomes darker and cushion shaped |
Colony characteristics | : | Whitish to tan to reddish brown |
Colony radius | : | 40 - 45mm |
Colony on PDA | : | Fast growth on PDA plate forming concentric ring like structure |
Hyphae | : | With cottony pustules |
Mycelia | : | Uniformly cottony, typically with projecting terminally fertile conidiophores. |
Pigments | : | No distinct pigments |
Odour | : | No distinct odor detected |
Conidiophore | : | Conspicuously and extremly variably curved to sinuous |
Phialides | : | Unpaired, L/W (1.2) 2.0-4.5 (-13.0) |
Conidia | : | Pulvinate to hemispherical pustules < 1-3mm |
Chlamydospores | : | Present, scattered, globose to subglobose |
Stromata | : | Fleshy stromata |
Ascospores | : | Hyaline, 2-celled ascospores, disarticulating at the septum within asci |
Main cell wall composition | : | Glucans, glycoprotien, chitin |
Type of reproduction | : | Asexual (Herman et al. 2004). |
Growth rate | : | After 144 hrs. in darkness conidia form abundantly in conspicuous concentric rings |
Economic importance | : | Biological control against plant pathogens |
Optimum temp. for growth rate | : | 25 - 300C |
Optimum pH | : | 4.00 (Kredics et al. 2003). |
Metabolite production | : | Peptaibols (Kubicek CP et al., 2008) |
Enzymatic production | : | Protease, chitinase |
Morphology | Conodiophore | Spore |
District : Chandel
Topography : Slope
Latitude : 24026'38.4''N
Longitude : 94001'15.3''E
Altitude (M) : 799