Phylum：Anamorphic fungi　>>　Class： Anamorphic fungi　>>　 Order： Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
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　Scientific Name： Gibellula leiopus
 
   
   
　Author：

Gibellula leiopus (Vuill.) Mains, Mycologia 42: 313. 1950.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Spider host covered by dense white to yellowish white (3A2) mycelium. Synnemata arising from the whole host, erect, cylindrical, or slightly clavate, with a short stipe, white becom-ing orange white to pale orange (5A2-3) in age, pulverulent when sporulating, 0.7-1.0 mm in length, 280-430 μm in diameter, composed of parallel densely compact hyphae. Hyphae septate, hyaline to yellowish white (2A2) to greyish yellow (1B3), mostly smooth-walled, 1.8-8.4 μm wide, curly, arched, becoming wider, distinctly verrucose, warty in the vicinity of conidiophores. Conidiophores very short, arising apically or laterally from the arched hyphae of the synnemata, crowded, especially on the upper portion, 24-80 × 4.4-11.1 μm, mostly smooth-walled, occasionally slightly verrucose at the base, narrowing to a slender paex, and terminating in a swollen vesicle. Conidial head wedge-shaped, hemispherical to spherical, (16-)24-56 μm diam. Vesicles mostly ellipsoidal to globose, smooth-walled, hya-line, 5.6-9.2 μm in diameter, bearing a number of metulae on the upper portion. Metulae ellipsoidal, broadly cylindrical to obovoidal, hyaline, smooth-walled, 7.5-10.7 × 3.7-6.4 μm, bearing up to 13 phialides at the apices. Phialides narrowly clavate to subcylindrical, taper-ing towards the thickening apex, smooth-walled, hyaline, 7.9-11.5(-14.0) × 2.4-3.4 μm. Conidia mostly ovoid, ellipsoidal, often cylindrical to fusiform, sometimes obclavate, occa-sionally apiculate, hyaline, smooth-walled, single or in long chains, 3.0-5.4 × 1.6-2.5 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan, Taipei City, Yangmingshan National Park, on spider, Arach-nida, Ar.28, 16 Aug 1990.
 
 
 
　Habitat： on spider
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Taiwan, France.
 
 
 
　References：

Tzean, SS et al. 1997.
   
   
   
　Provided：

S. S. Tzean and L. S. Hsieh
 
 
　Note： newly recorded species.