Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >>  Order: Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Hirsutella stilbelliformis var. stilbelliformis
 
   
   
 Author:

Hirsutella stilbelliformis var. stilbelliformis Evans & Samson, Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. 79: 434. 1982.

   
 
 
 
 
 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.

 
 
 
 Habitat: on rove beetle.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Tzean, SS et al. 1997.

   
   
   
 Provided:

S. S. Tzean and L. S. Hsieh

 
 
 Note: newly recorded species.