Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >> Order: Anamorphic fungi | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Hirsutella stilbelliformis var. stilbelliformis | |||
Author: | Hirsutella stilbelliformis var. stilbelliformis Evans & Samson, Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. 79: 434. 1982. |
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Description: | Synnemata arising from intersegmental membranes of insect host, slender, flexuous, cylindrical or clavate, simple or branched, dark brown (6F5-7), broadening into a bulbous, funnel-like, white, fertile head, 3.0-4.5 mm, ca. 100 μm wide. Synnemata consisting of interwoven, parallel, septate, smooth-walled, yellowish white, pale yellow (4A2-3), greyish yellow (4B4-5), or greyish orange to brownish orange (5B-C6-7) hyphae, 3.2-6.4 μm wide. Conidiophores mono- or biverticillate. Metulae smooth, 9.0-19.8 × 3.2-5.0 μm. B-phialides terminal, heavy verrucose, hyaline, cylindrical, subulate, terminal slightly swollen, smooth, straight or slightly curved, 61.9-95.4 × 2.9-4.1 μm. B-conidia enveloped in mucus, aspetate, oblong-ellipsoidal to cylindrical, slightly curved, hyaline, with 1-2 guttules, (5.4-)7.1-11.2 × 3.3-4.7 μm, wall usually slightly thickened, up to 0.4 μm wide. A-phialides, A-conidia, and teleomorph not observed. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan, Taipei County, Wulai, Fushan Botanical Garden, Co.65 on rove beetle, Staphylinidae, Coleoptera, 21 Dec 1996, Lin Chung-Chi. |
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Habitat: | on rove beetle. | |||
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. | |||