Stroma: Basal weft of woolly, white mycelium over host. Phialides: Body 2.5-4 x 2-3 m across with zig-zag rachis up to 30 m long bearing conidia on inconspicuous sterigmata. Conidia: Round, hyaline, 1.5-2.5 x 1.5 m.
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Beauveria densa (Link) F. Picard 1914 |
| synonym | Beauveria doryphorae R.A. Poiss. & Patay 1935 |
| synonym | Beauveria effusa (Beauverie) Vuill. 1912 |
| synonym | Beauveria globulifera (Speg.) F. Picard 1914 |
| synonym | Beauveria shiotae (Kuru) Langeron 1936 |
| synonym | Beauveria stephanoderis (Bally) Petch 1926 |
| synonym | Beauveria sulfurescens (J.F.H. Beyma) J.J. Taylor 1970 |
| synonym | Botrytis bassiana Bals.-Criv. 1836 |
| synonym | Botrytis bassiana var. lunzinensis Svilv. 1941 |
| synonym | Botrytis effusa Beauverie 1911 |
| synonym | Botrytis stephanoderis Bally 1923 |
| synonym | Botrytis stephanoderis f. macroconidiana Av.-Saccá 1930 |
| synonym | Botrytis stephanoderis f. stephanoderis Bally 1923 |
| synonym | Isaria densa (Link) Giard 1891 |
| synonym | Isaria shiotae Kuru 1932 |
| synonym | Penicillium bassianum (Bals.-Criv.) Biourge 1923 |
| synonym | Penicillium densum (Link) Biourge 1923 |
| synonym | Spicaria bassiana (Bals.-Criv.) Vuill. 1910 |
| synonym | Spicaria densa (Link) Vuill. 1910 |
| synonym | Sporotrichum densum Link 1816 |
| synonym | Sporotrichum epigaeum var. terrestre Dasz. 1912 |
| synonym | Sporotrichum globuliferum Speg. 1880 |
| synonym | Sporotrichum sulfurescens J.F.H. Beyma 1928 |
| synonym | Tritirachium shiotae (Kuru) Langeron 1947 |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Hywel-Jones, N.L. Fungi of Bhutan. Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Department of Agiculutre, National Mushroom Centre, Semtokha. 2010
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
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📚 Natural History
Miscellaneous Details
Comments
This is one of the most commonly collected insect fungi with a world-wide distribution as it has evolved from being a specific pathogen to an opportunist. Consequently, it is commonly found in agricultural ecosystems or gardens where it can infect a wide variety of pests. Throughout the last fifty plus years it has been the subject of investigation as a biological control agent for agricultural insect pests. It was the organism used by Agostino Bassi to demonstrate infection in silk worms in the early nineteenth century. Some thirty years later Louis PAsteur used Bassi's work as the basis for what is now known as the Germ Theory. When Beauveria bassiana was formally named, Bassi's name was used for the species epithet - hence bassiana.
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Insect-Fungi
Hywel-Jones, N.L. Fungi of Bhutan. Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Department of Agiculutre, National Mushroom Centre, Semtokha. 2010
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
On a wide variety of insect orders especially the following: Coleoptera, Hemiptera and Lepidoptera, loose in the leaf litter or slightly buried in soil – occasionally attached to the underside of leaves or other aerial vegetation
Hywel-Jones, N.L. Fungi of Bhutan. Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Department of Agiculutre, National Mushroom Centre, Semtokha. 2010
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
Too inconspicuous for culinary purposes
Hywel-Jones, N.L. Fungi of Bhutan. Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Department of Agiculutre, National Mushroom Centre, Semtokha. 2010
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Fungi |
| Phylum | Ascomycota |
| Class | Sordariomycetes |
| Order | Hypocreales |
| Family | Cordycipitaceae |
| Genus | Beauveria |
| Species | Beauveria bassiana (Bals.-Criv.) Vuill. 1912 |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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