Phylum：Anamorphic fungi　>>　Class： Anamorphic fungi　>>　 Order： Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
　BCRC Number： NO BCRC Number!  
   
　Scientific Name： Monacrosporium cionopagum
 
   
   
　Author：

Newly proposed epiphet: Dactylellina cionopaga (Drechsler) Ying Yang & Xing Z. Liu, Mycotaxon 97: 158. (Index Fungorum). 2006.

Basionym: Dactylella cionopaga Drechsler, Mycologia 42: 30. 1950.

Monacrosporium cionopagum (Drechsler) Subram, J. Indian bot. Soc. 42: 293. 1963.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Vegetative hyphae hyaline, septate, 2?5 μm in diam; conidioophores hyaline, erect, septate, usually unbranched, gradually tapering upward, 2.8 μm in diam at the tip, bearing a single conidium; conidia hyaline, mostly broadly spindle-shape, rounded distally, narrowing proximally, base truncate, 2?5 septate, mostly 3?4 septate, the middle cell the largest, 44?60 × 14?22 μm; trapping nematodes by means of adhesive mesh-like, two-dimensional net-works.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan, Chiayi County, Fencihu, litter, 3 Sep. 1991, H004 (BCRC 32658); Taiwan, Nantou County, Puli, soil, 4 Nov. 1990, B003 (BCRC 32752); Taiwan, Nantou County, Sitou, litter, 1 Dec. 1991, I004 (BCRC 32759). J. Y. Liou
 
 
 
　Habitat： soil.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Taiwan, USA
 
 
 
　References：

Tzean, SS. et al. 1997
   
   
   
　Provided：

G. Y. Liou, S. S. Tzean and J. Y. Liou
 
 
　Note： M. cionopagum is characterized by its trapping devices, more elongated shape and septation of conidia and less union of mesh-like trapping devices in scattered positions.