Can cause disseminated and pulmonary infections in immune compromised hosts.
Commonly found as saprophyte in soil. It is a zygomycete with sporangiospores being of the Mucor type. Asexually it produces extensive white mycelium, nonseptate, sporangiophores simple or branched, with enlarged tips bearing heads of conidia.
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