Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >> Order: Anamorphic fungi | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Beauveria brongniartii | |||
Author: | Beauveria brongniartii (Sacc.) Petch, Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. 10: 249. 1924. & Syll. Fung. 10: 540. 1892. 1892. |
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Description: | Mycelium covering the infected host, particularly abundant on ventral suface, lanose or granular-pulverulent, white to orange white (5A2). Hyphae hyaline, smooth, 2.0-3.8 μm wide, bearing groups of swollen lateral cells, globose, cylindrical to subcylindrical, 4.0-6.4 × 2.6-4.4 μm, further branching, giving rise to numerous (about 2-3) smaller swollen cells or 1-6 conidiogenous cells in the first, or sometimes in the second order. Conidiogenous cells consisting of globose to subglobose basal part, 2.8-4.0 × 2.8-3.6 μm, and terminal cell, terminal cell mostly slender, rachis well developed, up to 10 μm long, 0.8-1.6 μm wide, geniculate or irregularly bent, denticulate, denticles thinner than rachis, about 0.8-1.2 μm long. Conidia oblong to ellipsoidal, hyaline, smooth-walled, base slightly apiculate, 3.2-4.8 × 1.6-2.4 μm. Chlamydospores not observed. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Ilan County, Yuanshan, Shuanlienpei, on leafhopper, Homoptera, Ho.123, 15 Feb 1990, Y. C. Shiao; Taipei County, Wulai, on coleopteran beetle, Co.30, 15 Oct 1991. |
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Habitat: | on leafhopper, Homoptera; on coleopteran beetle. | |||
Distribution: | Taiwan, France. |
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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. | |||