MONILIACEAE 



2U5 



(r) End branches long, terete 

 (s) End branches very short, el- 

 lipsoid 

 (y) Conidiophores simple or nearly so 

 m. Conidiophores denticulate; conidia 

 usually grouped 

 (m) Hyphae everywhere denticulate, 



bearing conidia only at tip 

 (n) Hyphae denticulate or proliferous 

 at tip alone 

 r. Apex denticulate, x-spored 

 s. Apex inflated-ampulliform, 

 1-spored' 

 n. Conidiophores not denticulate, soli- 

 tary 

 (m) Hyphae forming a crust-like stra- 

 tum 

 (n) Hyphae loose, cobwebby 



b. Entomogenous; much branched; conidia soli- 



tary, acrogenous 



c. Biogenous, folicole; conidia acrogenous, soli- 



tary or sometimes subcatenate 

 2. Conidia asperate, spiny or tuberculose-stellate 



a. Conidia globose 



(1) Conidia intercalary, verrucose; terminal 



one with a seta 



(2) Conidia not intercalary or setose 



(a) Conidia acrogenous; hyphae loose, cob- 



webby 



(b) Conidia pleurogenous; hyphae dense 



X. Sterile hyphae granulate; mass re- 

 sembling a sporodochium; conidia 

 asperate 



y. Sterile hyphae not granulate; mass 

 forming a subgelatinous pellicle; co- 

 nidia spiny 



b. Conidia oblong to cylindric, spiny 



c. Conidia tuberculose-stellate, globoid 



D. Conidia grouped on inflated joints of the hyphae 



1. Joints muricate or punctate 



a. Conidia catenate, forming a globose head 



b. Conidia not catenate 



2. Joints smooth; conidia not catenate 



Cylindrophora 4:138 

 Cylindrodendrum 4:139 



Xenopus 18:524 



Rhinotrichum 4:91; 53 

 Olpitrichum 11:594 



Hyphoderma 4:89 

 Acremonium 4:89; 54 



Chantransiopsis 



Ovularia 4:139 



Chaetoconidium 10:544 



Sepedonium 4:146 



Volutellis 



Pellicularia 4:149 

 Ramulaspera 18:532 

 Asterophora 4:148; 54 

 Gonatobotrytae 



Gonatorhodis 10:548 

 Gonatobotrys 4:169; 54 

 Nematogonium 4:170 



Hyalodidymae 



4:176, 10:548, 11:600, 14:1057, 16:1038, 18:539, 22:1305 



Conidia 2-celled, hyaline or bright-colored, globose to oblong or fusoid 



A. Conidia catenate 



1. Conidiophores ramose, dichotomous or verti- 

 cillate 



a. Conidia ellipsoid 



b. Conidia cylindric 



Didymocladium 4:185 

 Hormiactina 



