Graphium                Print PDF

Natural Habitat

• Dung
• Seeds
• Soils
• Woody plant tissue

Suitable Substrates in the Indoor Environment

• Unknown

Water Activity

• Unknown

Mode of Dissemination

• Beetles when mitosporic state of Ophiostoma ulmi

Allergenic Potential

• Unknown

Potential Opportunist or Pathogen

• Unknown

Industrial Uses

• GR135402, a compound with antifungal activity against Candida albicans and Cryptococcus neoformans, has been isolated from a fermentation broth of Graphium putredinis

Potential Toxins Produced

• Unknown

Other Comments

• There have not been any reports of human infections with Graphium species, however, it is a mitosporic state of Pseudoallescheria boydii which causes subcutaneous mycoses in man