Phylum：Anamorphic fungi　>>　Class： Anamorphic fungi　>>　 Order： Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
　BCRC Number： NO BCRC Number!  
   
　Scientific Name： Monacrosporium eudermatum
 
   
   
　Author：

Basionym: Dactylaria eudermata Drechsler, Mycologia 42: 40. 1950.

Newly proposed epiphet: Arthrobotrys eudermata (Drechsler) M. Scholler, Hagedorn & A. Rubner, Sydowia 51: 102. (MycoBank). 1999.

Monacrosporium eudermatum (Drechsler) Subram., J. Indian bot. Soc. 42: 293. 1963.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Vegetative hyphae hyaline, erect, septate, usually 5?8 μm at the base, tapering gradually upward, 2?3.5 μm at the tip, simple or branched near the apex, sometimes producing a single conidium and sometimes bearing obovoid, broadly round at the tip, 2?4 septate, mostly 3?septate, the middle cell usually the largest, 32?44 × 13?26 μm; trapping nematodes by means of loops or three-dimensional adhesive networks.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan, Taipei County, Wulai, litter, 15 Oct. 1991, A015 (BCRC 32749); Taiwan, Nantou County, Hui-Sun Forest station, soil, 6 Apr. 1989, C001 (BCRC 32753); Taiwan, Pingtung County, Haifong, soil, 25 Apr. 1990, E002 (BCRC 32757). J. Y. Liou.
 
 
 
　Habitat： litter, soil.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Australia, Burkina Faso, Germany, Spain, Taiwan, USA.
 
 
 
　References：

Tzean, SS. et al. 1997
   
   
   
　Provided：

G. Y. Liou, S. S. Tzean and J. Y. Liou
 
 
　Note： M. eudermatum is characterized by its trapping devices, unusual width of conidia and producing a single conidium at the tip of the conidiophore and additional spores singly on its apex branches.