Zygomycosis and the Joplin Tornado

Lichtheimia Species

July 2011

And you can see on this illustration, this is Lichtheimia and it has these pear shaped sporangia with that funnel-like apophysis at the base. And if you follow it down just a little ways you can see there is septum in the sporangiophore that is obvious and has the characteristic of this organism.

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