 Description： |
Spider host covered by a surface layer appearing felty, powdery, pulverulent, velutinous or flocculose, consisting of numerous conidiophores and abundant sporulation, at first white, yellowish white to pale yellowish (4A2-3), becoming brownish grey to greyish brown (5-6D3、7D2-3、7E3-4、8E3) in age. Hyphae septate, smooth-walled, hyaline, mostly 2.4-5.6 μm wide, sometimes swollen near the septa, up to 9.1 μm wide. Conidiophores erect, 3.3-4.6 μm wide, densely grouped, forming dense clusters of metulae around the septa, solitary or in whorls of 2-6, each bearing 2-6 compacted phialides around the stalk, occasionally with longer branches along the conidiophores. Metulae cylindrical, sometimes swollen near the middle, or narrowing towards the base, smooth-walled, 5.2-7.9(-9.1) × 3.2-5.1(-6.4) μm. Phialides usually short cylindrical, or ampulliform with a swollen base, 4.0-7.1 × 2.4-4.4 μm, with necks mostly very short or none, smooth, hyaline. Conidia borne in dry divergent chains, 3.0-8.3(-11.4) × 2.0-4.0(-5.2) μm, broadly ellipsoidal to cylindrical, sometimes curved, mostly smooth-walled, rarely slightly roughened, hyaline. Chlamydospores absent. Teleomorph not observed. |
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Taipei City, Yangmingshan National Park, on spider, Arachnida, Ar.112, 2 Aug 1995; Pingtung County, Manchow, Nanjenshan, on spider, Arach-nida, Ar.101, 1 Mar 1995; Kaohsiung County, Liukuei, Shanping, on spider, Arachnida, Ar.95, 22 Oct 1994. |
Phylum：Anamorphic fungi >> Class： Anamorphic fungi >> Order： Anamorphic fungi