Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >> Order: Anamorphic fungi | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Paecilomyces breviramosus | |||
Author: | Paecilomyces breviramosus Bissett, Fungi Canadenses No. 159. 1979. |
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Description: | Host covered by mycelium, white to yellowish white (4A2), powdery. Hyphae hyaline, sep-tate, branched, smooth-walled, 2.0-4.0 μm wide. Conidiophores smooth-walled, hyaline, 2.0-2.8 μm wide, bearing groups of swollen lateral cells, globose, ellipsoidal to cylindrical, 3.2-5.6 × 2.8-4.8 μm, further branching, giving rise to 1-5 smaller swollen cells or 1-6 phialides in the first or second order, occasionally the phialides solitarily arising from hyphae. Phialides smooth-walled, 3.2-5.2 × 2.0-3.2 μm, flask-shaped, with a globose to subglobose basal portion, tapering into a distinctly thin neck, ca. 0.8 μm wide. Conidia ovoid to ellipsoidal, often asymmetrically apiculate, occasionally lemon-shaped, one-celled, catenulate, smooth-walled, hyaline, 2.4-3.2 × 1.6-2.1 μm. Chlamydospores absent. Teleomorph not observerd. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Kaohsiung County, Tianliao, on larva of moth, Lepidoptera, Le.111, 16 Jul 1992. |
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Habitat: | on larva of moth. | |||
Distribution: | Taiwan. |
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References: | Tzean, SS et al. 1997. |
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Provided: | S. S. Tzean and L. S. Hsieh |
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Note: | newly recorded species. | |||