Phylum：Zygomycota　>>　Class： Zygomycetes　>>　 Order： Entomophthorales 
   
 
　BCRC Number： NO BCRC Number!  
   
　Scientific Name： Meristacrum asterospermum
 
   
   
　Author：

Meristacrum asterospermum Drechsler, Journal of the Washington Academy of Science 30: 251 1940.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Vegetative hyphae hyaline, simple or slightly branched, thallodic segments becoming rounded at their ends, each putting forth a single conidiophorous filament or giving rise to a single azygospore; conidiophorous filaments mostly 0.5?3.0 μm long, usually extending 200?500 μm into the air; conidium after disarticulation often adhering to a nematode, then thrusting into it an infective germ tube, which develops into a vegetative hyphae, or failing to adhere to a nematode, fiving rise on an ascending sporophore, usually 0.8?1.0 μm at the tip, to a somewhat small secondary conidium; endoparasite within the nematodes.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan, Taipei County, Wulai, soil. J. Y. Liou
 
 
 
　Habitat： soil
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Taiwan
 
 
 
　References：

Tzean, SS. et al. 1997;
   
   
   
　Provided：

G. Y. Liou, S. S. Tzean and J. Y. Liou
 
 
　Note： D. coniospora is characterized by its conidiophores passing out of host.