I grew this amazing mold by accident. This is on red cabbage.
The soil sample was collected during the winter months and kept at 4 degrees C until processing.
This fungus can easily be mistaken for a chytrid, especially species of Catenaria. It is a fast grower, even at cold temperatures. In pure culture, it does not produce aerial sporangia often. Chlamydospores are produced abundantly along the hyphae, which are aseptate. The chlamydospores superficially resemble zoosporangia.
It appears to be homothallic, and produces zygospores with apposed suspensors. One is typically much larger than the other.
Identification is based off morphology and a partial 28s rRNA gene sequence.
It exists as a pure culture in the University of Alabama culture collection.
Location: Makunda Christian Hospital, Karimganj District, Assam
Date: 1st October 2012
Equipment: Nikon D300s with Nikkor AF 28-105mm lens
Fungi on an insect / spider carcass
Location: Makunda Christian Hospital, Karimganj District, Assam
Date: 1st October 2012
Equipment: Nikon D300s with Nikkor AF 28-105mm lens
Huntley Meadows, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA. 27 May 2012.
Might be Furia ithacensis.
Zygomycota, or zygote fungi, is a phylum of fungi. The name comes from zygosporangia, where resistant spherical spores are formed during sexual reproduction. Approximately 1060 species are known. They are mostly terrestrial in habitat, living in soil or on decaying plant or animal material. Some are parasites of plants, insects, and small animals, while others form symbiotic relationships with plants. Zygomycete hyphae may be coenocytic, forming septa only where gametes are formed or to wall off...
