MONILIACEAE 



B. Conidia not catenate 



1. Conidiophore 3-celled, upper cell much inflated 



2. Conidiophore not inflated, often obsolete 



a. Conidia ciliate at apex and upper septum 



b. Conidia not ciliate 



(1) Conidia cylindric, cohering at base and 



forming a radiate capitule 



(2) Conidia not coherent into a radiate 



capitule 



(a) Hyphae lacking or very short 



X. Conidia ellipsoid; mycelium endophytic 

 y. Conidia long fusoid, often curved 



(b) Hyphae distinct, creeping 



X. Conidia in mucose glomerules 

 y. Conidia in subglobose fascicles, not 

 mucose 



Milowia 4:222 

 Mastigosporium 4:220 



Psammina 10:498 



Amastigis 

 Fusoma 4:220 



Rotaea 4:222 



Paraspora 4:222 



Macronemeae 

 Hyphae manifest and distinct from the conidia 



A. Saprogenous 



1. Conidia capitate or fascicled 



a. Conidia capitate 



(1) Conidiophores vesiculose at tip; fimicole 



(2) Conidiophores not vesiculose; rarely fimi- 



cole 



(a) Conidiophores verticillate 



(b) Conidiophores simple 



b. Conidia fascicled; conidiophores irregularly 



ramose 



(1) End branches lageniform, rostrate, bear- 



ing a dense fascicle of conidia 



(2) End branches dichotomous, terete; conidia 



single but forming a loose fascicle 



2. Conidia solitary 



a. Conidiophores ramose 



(1) Conidiophores verticillate 



(2) Conidiophores more or less irregularly 



ramose 



(a) End branches corymbose-fascicled; co- 



nidia dolioloid 



(b) End branches single; conidia fusoid to 



clavate 



b. Conidiophores simple or nearly so 



(1) Sterile hyphae obsolete 



(a) Conidia doliform; conidiophores granu- 



late 



(b) Conidia ellipsoid to cylindric; conidio- 



phores smooth 



(2) Sterile hyphae present, often abundant 



(a) Conidia with a whorl of 3-5 blunt ap- 



pendages at the apex 



(b) Conidia not appendaged 



Cephaliophora 18:544 



MuGrosporium 4:190 

 Dactylaria 4:194 



Moeszia 

 Candelospora 



Dactylium 4:188 



Gueguenia 22:1328 

 Blastotrichum 4:191; 54 



Pithomyces 4:693 

 Dactylella 4:193 



Tripospcrina 



