 Phylum：Anamorphic fungi >> Class： Anamorphic fungi >> Order： Anamorphic fungi |
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NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Hirsutella saussurei | |||
| Author： |
Hirsutella saussurei (Cooke) Speare, Mycologia 12: 69. 1920. |
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| Description： |
Mycelium and synnema emerging from integument of infected host, white to orange grey (5B2) or greyish orange (5B3). Synnemata numerous, aerial, erect or procumbent, slender, terete, attenuated upward, subulate, 1.6-5.6 mm long, 56-200 μm wide, brown (6E6-8) to dark brown (6F6-8), composed of compact, parallel, longitudinal hyphae, sometimes forming several short, acute, lateral branches, 0.1-1.0 mm long, 50-120 μm wide. Hyphae septate, smooth, branched, orange white (5A2), pale orange (5A3), to greyish orange (6B3-4), 3.2-4.8 μm wide. Conidiogenous cells monophialidic, septate, scattered to moderately crowded, arising laterally from the hyphae of synnemata, cylindric to ellipsoid, (11.9-)18.2-25.4 μm long, base somewhat inflated, 7.1-10.3(-15.9) × 4.0-5.6 μm, apex slender, abruptly attenuated, forming a thin long neck, (22.2-)25.4-35.7 μm long, ca. 1.6-2.4 μm wide. Conidia hyaline, smooth, one-celled, lemon-shaped, 7.1-11.9 × 4.0-7.1 μm, pro-duced singly, rarely in groups at the neck apex, sometimes surrounded by mucous sheath. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Kaohsiung County, Meinung, on paper wasp, Polistes sp, Hymenoptera, Hy.31, 1 Jul 1992. |
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| Habitat： |
on paper wasp. | |||
| Distribution： |
Taiwan, Thailand. |
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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. | |||