Zygomycosis and the Joplin Tornado

Mucor Species

July 2011

Mucor is one that does not produce rhizoids at all and only produces sporangiophores and sporangias. That is the hallmark of Mucor and it is one that is fairly easy to recognize because of the lack of rhizoids.

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