Colonies grown from single conidia on Difco PDA 38–42 mm diam after 10 d, aerial mycelium sparse, cottony, pale grey, surface of colony dark, a more or less continuous layer of acervulus-like structure with deep orange brown conidial masses and numerous setae; in reverse dark purplish-black near centre of colony, dark olivaceous near the margin. Conidia (10–)14–16.5(–20.5) × (4.5–)5.5–6(–7.5) µm (av. 15.3 × 5.8 µm, n = 24), highly variable in size and shape, subglobose to long-cylindric, apex usually broadly rounded, small truncate scar at base. Conidiogenous cells 13–18 × 4–6.5 µm, cylindric to flask-shaped, tapering at apex to narrow, phialidic conidiogenous locus, wall at base often encrusted with dark brown material. Appressoria sparsely developed, cylindric to elliptic, simple; many putatively partially developed appressoria, similar in shape to those with dark and thick walls and also with an appressorial pore, but the wall remains thin and only slightly pigmented. Perithecia not seen.

Geographic distribution and host range: Known from throughout the geographic range of Salsola tragus (Berner et al. 2009), reported in nature only from Salsola spp.

Holotype: Hungary, on Salsola tragus, coll. D. Berner [specimen from plants inoculated with strain 96-067, originally collected I. Schwarczinger & L. Vajna on Salsola tragus from Bugac, near Kiskunsag National Park, 1996], BPI 878740; ex-holotype culture ICMP 19051.