Lecanicillium fungicola
Lecanicillium fungicola (W. Gams & Zaayen) W. Gams & Zare, Mycological Research 112 (7): 821 (2008)
Index Fungorum number: IF 510866
Facesoffungi number: FoF 06016
Fungicolous, colonies form brown spots on a fruiting body of Agaricus bisporus. Asexual morph: Conidiophores generally arising from submerged hyphae, hyaline, erect, up to over 400 µm long, about 2–3 µm wide at the base, thick-walled, bearing many whorls of 2–5 phialides. Phialides 15–30 µm (x̅ = 26 µm, n = 30) long, from 1.5–2.5 µm (x̅ = 2 µm, n = 30) gradually tapering to 0.8–1.2 µm (x̅ = 1 µm, n = 30). Conidia hyaline, forming mostly globose heads, oblong, fusiform, long ellipsoidal to almost cylindrical, with conically tapering and ultimately rounded tips, equal at both ends, usually straight, smooth-walled, 3.5–7 × 2–3 µm (x̅ = 4.5 × 2.5 µm, n = 30). Chlamydospores absent. Sexual morph: Undetermined. (Description from Sun et al. 2019)
Material examined – CHINA, Gan Su Province, Lan Zhou City on a fruiting body of Agaricus bisporus in a mushroom farm. 22 August 2016; Sun J. Z. (HMAS279801), living culture CGMCC 3.19067.
GenBank no. ITS: MH459157, and SSU: MH454345 (Sun et al. 2019)
Figure: Lecanicillium fungicola (CGMCC 3.19067). a Brown spots on the fruiting body of Agaricus bisporus. b Culture on PDA. c, d Conidiophores. e, f, i Phialides. g, h. Conidia. Scale bars: c, d = 40 μm), e–g = 20 μm, h = 5 μm, i = 10 μm. (Source: Sun et al. 2019)
Reference:
Sun, J.Z., Liu, X.Z., Jeewon, R., Li, Y.L., Lin, C.G., Tian, Q., Zhao, Q., Xiao, X.P., Hyde, K.D. and Nilthong, S., 2019. Fifteen fungicolous Ascomycetes on edible and medicinal mushrooms in China and Thailand. Asian Journal of Mycology, 2(1), pp.129-169. https://asianjournalofmycology.org/pdf/AJOM_2_1_7.pdf
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