''Fusarium sterilihyphosum'' is a plant pathogen.
It infects
mango trees.
Its aerial
mycelium
Mycelium (plural mycelia) is a root-like structure of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching, thread-like hyphae. Fungal colonies composed of mycelium are found in and on soil and many other substrates. A typical single spore germinates ...
is almost white;
conidiophore
A conidium ( ; ), sometimes termed an asexual chlamydospore or chlamydoconidium (), is an asexual, non-motile spore of a fungus. The word ''conidium'' comes from the Ancient Greek word for dust, ('). They are also called mitospores due to the ...
s on aerial mycelium are erect, occasionally prostrate, and sympodially branched bearing mono- and
polyphialides.
Phialide
The phialide ( ; el, phialis, diminutive of phiale, a broad, flat vessel) is a flask-shaped projection from the vesicle (dilated part of the top of conidiophore) of certain fungi. It projects from the mycelium without increasing in length unless ...
s on aerial conidiophores mono and polyphialidic. Sterile
hyphae are present.
Microconidia
A conidium ( ; ), sometimes termed an asexual chlamydospore or chlamydoconidium (), is an asexual, non-motile spore of a fungus. The word ''conidium'' comes from the Ancient Greek word for dust, ('). They are also called mitospores due to th ...
are obovoid, oval to allantoid, 0-septate
conidia are abundant, 1-septate conidia less common.
Sporodochia are seldom present.
Macroconidia
A conidium ( ; ), sometimes termed an asexual chlamydospore or chlamydoconidium (), is an Asexual reproduction, asexual, non-motility, motile spore of a fungus. The word ''conidium'' comes from the Ancient Greek word for dust, ('). They are al ...
have slightly beaked apical cells, a footlike basal cell, 3–5 septate.
Chlamydospore
A chlamydospore is the thick-walled large resting spore of several kinds of fungi, including Ascomycota such as '' Candida'', Basidiomycota such as '' Panus'', and various Mortierellales species. It is the life-stage which survives in unfavourable ...
s are absent.
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sterilihyphosum
Fungal tree pathogens and diseases
Mango tree diseases
Fungi described in 2002
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