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Metarhizium anisopliae (Metsch.) Sorok. var. major (Johnston) Tulloch, Government of Porto Rico Board of Commissioners of Agriculture, Rio Pedras, Bulletin 10: 26. 1915.
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| Description： |
Host covered by weft of mycelium, pulverulent. Hyphae septate, hyaline, 1.8-4.0 μm wide. Conidiophores of variable length, 2.6-4.0 μm wide, penicillate, in candle- or palisade-like arrangement, apically forming a sporulation layer, often aggregating into sporodochia with a stromatic base, each branch bearing whorls of 2-5 metulae and phialides. Metulae cylindri-cal, to clavate, smooth-walled, 7.1-10.3 × 2.4-3.2 μm. Phialides elongate cylindrical, slightly constricted, apex tapering, thickened, neck inconspicuous or absent, smooth-walled, hyaline, (9.5-)11.9-15.9(-18.3) × 3.2-3.6 μm. Conidia forming in long chains, often aggregated into prismatic columns, one-celled, most cylindrical, slightly constricted, curved, sometimes broadly ellipsoidal, smooth-walled, end apiculate, hyaline, in mass olive (2D-E3、3E-F3), (6.4-)7.9-15.9 × 3.0-4.0 μm. Teleomorph unknown. |
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Taipei City, National Taiwan University campus, in soil on larva of beetle, Coleoptera, Co.28, 21 Apr 1991, Yang Ping-Shi. |
Phylum：Anamorphic fungi >> Class： Anamorphic fungi >> Order： Anamorphic fungi