Sterigmatocystis albo-rosea Sart., Sart. and Meyer, Ann. Myc., vol. 28, p. 358, 1930.

Heads rose-colour, radiate, stalks smooth, non-septate, hyaline, becoming rose-colour, 125–150 μ × 4.5-5 μ, vesicles clavate, 19–32 μ × 9–17 μ, fertile over whole surface. Sterigmata in 2 series, primary 6 μ × 3 μ, secondary to 9 μ long, 3 to 5 per primary. Conidia globose, smooth, rose-colour, 2.5-3 μ diameter.

Habitat: Skin of decomposing banana.

Description from Sart., Sart. and Meyer (l.c.).

S. basidiosepta Sart., Sart. and Meyer, Ann. Myc., vol. 27, p. 317, 1929.

Heads rose-colour, darkening to cafe-au-lait in age, radiate. Stalk hyaline, smooth, 0.8-1 mm. × 12–14 μ. Vesicle globose, 50–55 μ, fertile over whole surface. Sterigmata in 2 series, primary claviform, becoming up to 4 septate under optimum conditions of growth, 28–30 μ long, secondary 12–14 μ long. Conidia globose, smooth, 2.5-3 μ. Sclerotia or perithecia not observed.

Habitat: In crystallizator.

Description from Sart., Sart. and Meyer (l.c.).

S. butyracea Bainier, Bul. Soc. Bot. France, vol. 27, p. 29, 1880.

Colonies butter yellow, including stalks, heads and conidia. Stalks yellow, pitted, 13–16 μ diameter. Sterigmata in 2 series, primary up to 25 μ, secondary 10–12 μ long. Conidia smooth, 5.2 μ.

Description from Th. and Ch. (The Asperg., p. 191, 1926).

(Possibly a strain of A. ochraceus Wilhelm.)

Aspergillus erythrocephalus Berk, and Curt., Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot., vol. 10, p. 362, 1869.

Head radiate. (Colour?) Stalks rough or pitted, up to 2 mm. × 45–70 μ, walls 5–12 μ thick. Vesicle nearly globose, 100 μ diameter, fertile all over. Sterigmata 2 series, primary 8–10 μ, secondary 8–9 μ long. Conidia 8 μ × 6 μ 8–12 μ × 5–9 μ, finely pitted or roughened with rather thin walls.

Description from Th. and Ch. (The. Asperg., p. 197, 1926).

A. gigantosulphureus Saito, Jour. Coll. Sci. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, vol. 18, art. 5, p. 48, 1904.

Heads yellow, becoming yellow brown. Stalk smooth, colourless, over 1 mm. × 6–16 μ, sometimes branched, in age septate. Vesicle flask-shaped 28–32 μ diameter, fertile on upper surface only. Sterigmata single, 24–28 μ × 7 μ. Conidia globose, smooth or rough 8–12 μ diameter. Perithecia not known.

Description from Saito (l.c.).

(Saito suggests affinities with A. osteanus Wehmer, Thom & Church with A. glaucus or A. oryzae.

A. halophilus Sart., Sart. and Meyer, Ann. Myc., vol. 28, p. 362, 1930.

Head rose-colour, radiate. Stalks smooth, at first hyaline, later rose-coloar 5–7 μ diameter. Vesicles globose, fertile over whole surface. Sterigmata single, 25 μ × 6–7 μ. Conidia globose, rose colour, most coarsely echinulate, variable in size, 5–9 μ. Sclerotia or perithecia not observed.

Habitat: Cocoa which had been submerged in sea water.

Description from Sart., Sart. and Meyer (l.c.).

A. koningi Oudemans, Arch. Neerl., vol. 7, ser. 2, p. 248, 1902.

Heads radiate (cream colour?). Stalks hyaline, up to 350 μ. long. Vesicles hyaline, 16–20 μ diameter. Sterigmata 1 series, 8–10 μ × 2.5 μ. Conidia globose, smooth, cream colour, 3 μ.

Description from Th. and Ch. (The Asperg., p. 127, 1926).

A. jeaneselmei Ota, Ann. Parasitologie, vol. 1, p. 137, 1923.

Stalks smooth, somewhat dark coloured, from 80 or, more commonly, 100–400 μ long, 4–5 μ diameter at base to 8 μ at vesicle, which is 16–29 μ diameter. Sterigmata in 1 or 2 series, 4–10 μ × 2–3 μ. Conidia globose or ovoid, 3.5-6.5 μ diameter, mostly 5 μ. or less, smooth or in very old cultures somewhat verrucose, greenish becoming reddish-brown in several months.

Description from Th. and Ch. (The Asperg., p. 140) who suggest that this is a variant of A. nidulans.

A. minimus Wehmer, Bot. Centralb., vol. 80, p. 454, 1899.

Colonies green to grey-green, to dark green or dirty grey. Reverse not coloured or greyish. Heads radiate. Stalk smooth, colourless 0.3-1 mm. × 6 μ. Sterigmata 1 series, 5–7 μ × 3 μ, radiate, deciduous in age. Conidia oval, smooth, colourless, about 2 μ diameter.

Description from Th. and Ch. (The Asperg., p. 127, 1926).

A. pseudo-clavatus Purjewitch, Schrift. Naturforch. Gesell. Kiev, 16, 2, p. 309, 1900.

Conidial areas white to intensely green, later grey-green. Stalks 3–5 mm. in length, 25–35 μ diam. at base, increasing to the vesicle, which is 260–270 μ × 60–70 μ. Sterigmata closely packed in 2 series, primary 8–9 μ, secondary delicate, 2–5 μ in length. Conidia oval, greyish-green, 3.5-4 μ × 2.5-3 μ. Perithecia develop only under special conditions, 60–70 μ diameter, asci 6–7 (?) in the perithecium, 7–8 μ. Ascospores colourless oval.

Description from Th. and Ch. (The Asperg., p. 100, 1926).

A. pusillus Massee, Kew Bull. Misc. Inf., 4, p. 158, 1914.

Colony grey, effuse. Stalks hyaline, non-septate, 50–75 μ. × 3–4 μ. Vesicle 10–12 μ diameter. Sterigmata cylindrical, 3 μ × 1 μ Conidia globose, smooth, almost hyaline, 1 μ diameter.

Description from Th. and Ch. (The Asperg., p. 127, 1926).

A. quercinus (Bain.) Th. and Ch., The Asperg., p. 186, 1926.

S. queroina, Bainier, Bul. Soc. Bot. France, vol. 28, p. 78, 1881.

Colonies colour of clear oak wood, naples yellow, not ochraceus. Stalks smooth, colourless, up to 10 mm. × 21 μ. Heads (?) given as 88.3 μ. Sterigmata in 2 series, equal in length, 10.5 μ. Conidia globose, smooth, 4–4.2 μ. Sclerotia very abundant, especially on carrot, up to 0.5 mm., yellow.

Description from Th. and Ch. (The Asperg., p. 187, 1926).

It would appear that A. quercinus, A. alliaceus, A. sachari, and A. sclerotiorum are a series of closely related forms differing chiefly in colour of the abundant selerotia they all form in culture.

A. rehmii Zukal, Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr., vol. 43, p. 160, 1893.

Mycelium closely woven, yellow to ochre-yellow. Stalks smooth yellow, 400–500 μ × 5 μ. Vesicle elliptical oval, 30 μ × 20 μ. Sterigmata 2 series, primary 6 μ × 2–3 μ, secondary 4 μ × 1.5 μ. Conidia roundish “polyhedral,” smooth, yellowish, 2.5-3 μ. Perithecia black, 100–200 μ. diameter, surrounded by yellow weft, bearing Hülle cells. Asci 6–7 μ × 4–5 μ. Ascospores elliptical, smooth, translucent grey, about 5 μ × 3.5 μ.

Description from Th. and Ch. (The Asperg., p. 137, 1926).

A. sclerotiorum Huber, Phytopath., vol. 23, p. 306, 1933.

Heads sulphur-yellow, hemispherical to columnar, up to 140 μ diameter. Stalks light yellow, pitted, to 1.2 mm. × 6–12 μ. Vesicle globose to flask-shaped, up to 40 μ diameter. Sterigmata 2 series, approximately equal in length, up to 8.5 μ. Conidia globose, smooth, 2–3 μ diameter, walls slightly tinged yellow. Perithecia not found. Sclerotia abundant, first appearing in cultures 3 days old, globose or sub-globose, white at first, soon becoming light cream and then flesh pink. Pathogenic to apples.

Description from Huber (l.c.).

(See note to A. quercinus above.)

A. sulphureus (Fresen.) Th. and Ch., The Asperg., p. 185, 1926.

S. sulphurea Fresenius, Beitr. Z. Mykol., vol. 3, p. 83, 1886.

This species is known only from the imperfect description of Fresenius, and from dried herbarium material, in the interpretation of which Wehmer, Thom and Church and Blochwitz differ.

Thorn and Church would apply the name to strains of A. ochraceus producing bright yellow heads and not producing sclerotia.

The name should be dropped.

A. terricola Marchal, Rev. Mycologique, vol. 15, p. 101, 1893.

Colonies “terre d'ombre,” umbrinus. Stalks hyaline 0.6-1 mm. × 7–10 μ. Vesicle sub-globose, hyaline 30–50 μ, radiately covered with sterigmata. Sterigmata 12–15 μ × 4–7 μ. Conidia umber (Sacc.), ovate or elliptical then globose, rough, with colourless connective.

Description from Th. and Ch. (The Asperg., p. 192, 1926).