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MONILIALES 



X. Conidia at right angles to the conidio- 

 phore, forming secondary pleuroge- 

 nous conidia successively to produce 

 dendroid masses 

 y. Conidia not at right angles or in 

 dendroid masses; fimicole 

 B. Biogenous 



1. Conidia mucose-conglobate, allantoid, often con- 



tinuous 



2. Conidia otherwise 



a. Conidia with a filiform seta at apex 



b. Conidia not ciliate 



(1) Conidia obclavate-piriform 



(2) Conidia cylindric or clavoid, often cate- 



nate, sometimes 1-2-celled 



Varicosporium 22:1329 

 Monacrosporium 4:193 



Allantospora 14:1043 

 Trichoconis 18:545 

 Piricularia 4:217 

 Ramularia 4:196; 54 



Hyalodictyae 



11:608, 18:561, 22:1330 



Conidia muriform, hyaline, globose to elliptic 



A. Conidiophores with clavate-nodose joints; co- 



nidia usually 2-3 catenate 



B. Conidiophores not clavate-nodose 



1. Conidia stipitate, smooth; forming gall-like 



bodies 



2. Conidia not stipitate, verrucose; on germinat- 



ing seeds 



Gilletia 



Coniodictyum 22:1330 

 Stemphyliopsis 18:561 



Scolecosporae 



4:218, 22:1331 

 Conidia more or less broadly filiform, septate, hyaline 



Biogenous, folicole; conidia typically much more 

 than 10 times longer than wide 



Cercosporella 4:218 



Staurosporae 



4:230, 10:567, 11:608, 14:1067, 16:1049, 18:559 

 Conidia forked or lobed, radiate or stellate, hyaline or bright-colored, 



septate or continuous 



A. Conidia globose to cylindric, with 2-3 divergent 



sterigma-like appendages permanently attached Tetracladium 14:1067 



B. Conidia themselves lobed, radiate or stellate 



1. Conidia lobed, the lobes more or less parallel 



a. Conidia 1-celled, 6-lobed, outer divisions 



arcuate 



b. Conidia 5-celled, bilobate-furcate, lobes paral- 



lel, contiguous 



2. Conidia long-digitate, the divisions prismatic 



3. Conidia radiate or radiate-sarciniform 

 a. Conidia 3-5-radiate 



(1) Conidia ciliate 



(a) Conidia 5-radiate, 3 cells 1-ciliate, 2 



muticate 



(b) Conidia 4-radiate, all cells 1-ciliate 



Monogrammia 



Pedilospora 18:559 

 Prismaria 4:230 



Titaea 4:231; 54 

 Lemonniera 14:1067 



