Phialoseptomonium Crous & Carnegie, gen. nov.
MycoBank number: MB 830829; Index Fungorum number: IF 830829; Facesoffungi number: FoF
Etymology. Phialo = phialides, septo = conidial septa, and –monium – from Acremonium.
Classification — Nectriaceae, Hypocreales, Sordariomy cetes.
Mycelium consisting of hyaline, smooth, branched, septate hyphae. Conidiophores erect, straight to flexuous, arising directly from hyphae or from a basal stalk, subcylindrical, septate, giving rise to a rosette of conidiophores. Conidiophores erect, flexuous, subcylindrical with apical taper, hyaline but base at times appearing greenish olivaceous, septate. Conidiogenous cells apical, integrated, subcylindrical, phialidic with minute non- flared collarette. Conidia solitary, aggregating in mucoid mass, hyaline, smooth, granular, fusoid, straight, medianly 1-septate, apex obtuse, base truncate.
Type species. Phialoseptomonium eucalypti Crous & Carnegie.
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