| Mucor hiemalis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Phylum: | Zygomycota |
| Class: | Zygomycetes |
| Subclass: | Incertae sedis |
| Order: | Mucorales |
| Family: | Mucoraceae |
| Genus: | Mucor |
| Species: | M. hiemalis |
| Binomial name | |
| Mucor hiemalis Wehmer, (1903) |
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Mucor hiemalis is a fungal plant pathogen.
Morphology and cell structure: M. hiemalis grows in expanding gray colonies. It grows branched sporangiophores that yielding yellow to dark brown sporangia which can mate to form black-brown, spiny zygospores.
Physiology: M. hiemalis is nitrate positive and requires thiamin to grow.