Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >>  Order: Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Dactylaria haptotyla
 
   
   
 Author:

Dactylaria haptotyla Drechsler, Mycologia 42: 57. 1950..

Newly proposed epiphet: Monacrosporium haptotylum (Drechsler) Xing Z. Liu & K.Q. Zhang, Mycol. Res. 98: 865. 1994. (Index Fungorum); Dactylellina haptotyla (Drechsler) M. Scholler, Hagedorn & A. Rubner, Sydowia 51: 110. 1999. (MycoBank).

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Vegetative hyphae hyaline, septate, 1.2?4.0 μm in diam; conidiophores hyaline, erect, septate, 2.8?4.4 μm in diam at the base, tapering gradually upward, 1.2?1.8 μm at the tip, bearing short branches or spurs and conidia; conidia hyaline, spindle-shaped, 2?4 septate, mostly 4-septate, often the middle cell the largest, 30?52 × 4.2?12.0 μm; trapping nematodes by means of globose or ellipsoidal unicellular adhesive knobs.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taipei County, Wulai, litter, 15 Oct. 1991, A012 (BCRC 32746), J. Y. Liou

 
 
 
 Habitat: litter
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan, USA

 
 
 
 References:

Tzean, SS. et al. 1997; Scholler, M. et al. 1999.

   
   
   
 Provided:

G. Y. Liou, S. S. Tzean and J. Y. Liou

 
 
 Note: Dactylellina haptotyla is characterized by trapping devices, conidiophores producing three to five in loosely capitate arrangement and spindle-shaped conidia.