Phaeostalagmus novae-zelandiae S. Hughes 1978
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Phaeostalagmus novae-zelandiae S. Hughes 1978
Colonies effuse, grey. Mycelium composed of subhyaline to pale brown, branched, septate hyphae 2-4.7um wide. Conidiophores mostly produced singly. more-or-less crowded but not velutinous, erect, simple. straight. 130-265um long, 8-10µm wide and dirk brown toward the base, tapering gradually to 3-3.5um wide toward the subhyaline to pale brown apex. septate at 7-35um intervals, the uppermost cells being the shortest. The main stalk terminates in a sinule phialide and bears verticils of up to 5 divergent phialides below the apex and below the tipper 2 to 4 septa: phialides are also borne on short primary divergent branches, which are tip to 18µm long and I- or 2-celled, and on shorter secondary branches. Phialides are lageniform to sulbulate, 12.5-18(-23)µm ]on, with the venter 2.5-3.5µm wide tapering to a narrow. more-or-less cylindrical neck 1.5um wide which terminutes in an inconspicuous collarette.
Phialoconidia are ellipsoidal to cylindrical with rounded ends, hyaline, 5-7 X 1.8-2um and accumulate in sticky heads at the ends of the phialides.