 Phylum：Anamorphic fungi >> Class： Anamorphic fungi >> Order： Anamorphic fungi |
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 BCRC Number： |
NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Acremonium crassum | |||
| Author： |
Acremonium crassum Petch, Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. 16: 72 1931. |
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| Description： |
Infected homopteran aphid covered with dense, white, pulverulent to pruinose weft of mycelium. Hyphae branched, septate, smooth-walled, hyaline, sometimes fasciculate, 1.6-3.0 μm wide. Conidiophores phialidic, erect, septate, 2.2-3.6 μm wide, bearing phialides singly, or in whorls of 2-3. Phialides subulate, awl-shaped, orthtropic or plagiotropic, rarely one-septate, (12.7-)16.7-27.8(-37.3) × 1.8-3.2(-3.6) μm. Conidia produced singly in false heads, oval or cylindrical, occasionally slightly curved, both ends rounded, rarely one-septate, 5.2-10.3 × (1.6-)2.4-3.2 μm. Chlamydospores absent. Teleomorph unknown. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Taoyuan County, Tachi, Tzehu, on turnip aphid, Lipaphis erysimi Kaltenbach, Homoptera, Ho.23, 29 Nov 1989. |
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| Habitat： |
on turnip aphid, Lipaphis erysimi Kaltenbach, Homoptera. | |||
| 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.. | |||