Phylum：Anamorphic fungi　>>　Class： Anamorphic fungi　>>　 Order： Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
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　Scientific Name： Monacrosporium asthenopagum
 
   
   
　Author：

Basionym: Dactyllella asthenopaga Drechsler, Mycologia 29: 498. 1937.

Monacrosporium asthenopagum (Drechsler) A. Rubner, Stud. Mycol. 39: 50. 1996.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Colonies on CMA 3.6–3.8 cm diam. in 7 days at 27 ℃, densely cottony, white, translucent, with rough margins, reverse white. Mycelium spreading, vegetative hyphae hyaline, septate, branched, 2.5 to 7μm in width, in the presence of nematodes, giving rise to adhesive knobs, knob globose, 5–7 μm diam., situated on the top of short lateral branches of 4–19 × 2.5–3.5 μm. Infection bulb produced within nematodes, right beneath adhesive knob, globose, 9–14 μm diam. Conidiophores hyaline, septate, erect, 175–225 μm long, mostly 180–200 μm high, 3.5–6 μm wide at the base, tapering gradually upward to a width of approximately 2 μm, simple and terminating in a single conidium. Conidia hyaline, clavate, truncate at the base, broadly rounded at the apex, 22–37.5 × 7–12.5 μm, 3-septate, occasionally 1–2 or 4-septate, slightly constricted at the septum. Chlamydospores not observed.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan, Kaohsiung County: Maolin Township, from soil, 8 Feb. 2007, K.T. Chen, ML21.
 
 
 
　Habitat： soil.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Australia, Netherlands, Taiwan, United Kingdom.
 
 
 
　References：

Rubner, A. 1996.
   
   
   
　Provided：

C. Y. Chen and C. C. Kuo
 
 
　Note： This species can be easily distinguished from other species by the clavate conidia and the short conidiophores bearing a terminal conidium.