Lagenidium humanum, a Saprophyte Isolated on Dead Human Skin

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Abstract
L. humanum was isolated on dead bits of human skin which had been floated on a watered soil sample collected in a cemetery and subsequently isolated from this substratum and grown in pure culture on agar and in nutrient liquid media. It is characterized by a coarse, filamentous mycelioid, branched and septate thallus, reniform zoospores, and sexually-formed oospores. The antheridia may be slightly larger than the oogonia or vice versa, or the 2 gametangia may be similar in size and shape. Accordingly, sexual reproduction in L. humanum may be isogamous or heterogamous.