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Actinocladium rhodosporum
Nomenclature
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Family: StictographaceaeGenus: Actinocladium
SUMMARY
Anamorph: mycelium immersed in the substratum (usually rotten wood of broadleaved trees). Conidiophores developing from immersed or superficial hyphae, sometimes in clusters but usually solitary, unbranched, septate, erect, straight or bent, dark brown below, paler above, 20-100 µm long, the base sometimes slightly swollen, 5-8 µm diam. at the base, tapering to 2-4.5µm at the apex, sometimes terminating in a series of up to three ± barrel-shaped proliferations. Conidia pale to dark brown, borne singly at the apex of the conidiophore, at the base with a truncate stalk, broadening above and attached to a ± obovoid group of cells from which usually three arms radiate upwards at an angle of 30° to 80°, the arms 35-140µm long, at the base 4.5-9 µm diam. and tapering gently or abruptly to a rounded apex which is 2.5-6 µm diam., 3- to 15-septate and sometimes slightly constricted at the septa.
Teleomorph: not known.
Description adapted from Hughes (1951).