 Phylum：Anamorphic fungi >> Class： Anamorphic fungi >> Order： Anamorphic fungi |
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 BCRC Number： |
NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Tritirachium dependens | |||
| Author： |
Tritirachium dependens Limber, Mycologia 32: 26 1940. = Beauveria dependens (Limber) Saccas, Revue Mycol., Paris 13: 64 1948. |
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| Description： |
Colonies growing slightly slowly on Potato Dextrose Agar at 25℃, velvety, ochreous to pale brown, reverse blackish-brown or black. Mycelium superficial, composed of branched, septate, smooth, rather thick-walled, hyaline to light pale brown hyphae, 2 – 3 μm wide. Conidiophore erect, solitary, macronematous, base light brown, apex hyaline, bearing 1 - 5 conidiogenous cells in whorl, 150 – 220 μm in length. Conidiogenous cells acerous, slightly swollen at the base, elongated and tapering towards the tip, zig-zag, geniculate, pale golden brown to pale brown, 26.5 - 55 × 1.8 - 3.5 μm. Conidia light brown to hyaline, globose to ellipsoidal, smooth, 1-celled, 2 - 3.1 × 2.1 - 2.5 μm. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Taitung County, on insect feces, Mar 2007. |
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| Habitat： |
On insect feces | |||
| Distribution： |
Taitung, Taiwan. |
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| References： |
de Hoog, G. S., 1972. |
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| Provided： |
S. S. Tzean and T. W. Huang. |
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| Note： |
The Tritirachium can be readily separated from Acrodontium by its branched conidiophores while aged. T. dependens was once being transferred to the Beauveria genus, but recombined and accommodated in the Tritirachium genus as T. dependens by Saccas in 1948. | |||