A Key to the Plates in Genera of Hyphomycetes

A Key to the Plates in Genera of Hyphomycetes

By spore type: (for definitions of spore categories, see Kendrick & Nag Raj (1979)
Morphological Terms in Fungi Imperfecti. pp. 43-61 in The Whole Fungus, vol. 1
National Museum of Canada, Ottawa) [Available from Mycologue Publications]

Amero- (non-septate conidia) – Plates 1-55
Didymo- (1-septate conidia) – Plates 56-68
Phragmo- (conidia with 2 or more transverse septa) – Plates 69-93
Dictyo- (muriform – conidia with transverse and longitudinal septa) – Plates 94-101
Helico- (coiled conidia) – Plates 102-106
Scoleco- (conidia long and thin, length/width ratio > 15:1) – Plates 107-111
Stauro- (conidia with outgrowths >Ľ length of spore body) – Plates 112-127
Bulbils (‘massive’ multicellular propagules) – Plates 128-129

Within spore type:

AMERO-

Conidiogenous cells phialides 1-17 (conidia with appendages 1, phialides single 2-3, phialides in verticils 4, conidiophores penicillate 5-7, conidiophores aspergilloid 8, synnemata 9-11, sporodochia 12-14, miscellaneous 15-17)

Percurrent 18-20 (single conidiophores 18, synnemata 19, miscellaneous 20)

Sympodial 21-30 (spores curved 21, spores biconic 22, conidiophores simple 23-24, conidiophores branched 25-27, synnemata 28-29, miscellaneous 30)

Synchronous 31-35

Blastic chains 36-39

Retrogressive 40

Arthric 41-45 (alternate-arthric 41, arthric 42, synnemata 43, large conidiophores 44, conidiomata - basidiomycetous 45)

Basauxic 46

Thallic-solitary 47-54 (colourless 47, dark 48-50, conidiomata 50-51, basidiomycetous 51-52, miscellaneous 54)

Miscellaneous on arthropods 55

DIDYMO-

Conidia with appendages 56

Conidiogenous cells phialides 57-58 (single conidiophores 57, conidiomata 58)

Percurrent 59-60 (single conidiophores 59, conidiomata 60)

Sympodial 61-63

Synchronous 64

Blastic chains 65-67 (colourless 65, dark 66, miscellaneous 67)

Thallic solitary 68

PHRAGMO-

Conidia with appendages 69-70

Conidia beaked 71-72

Conidiogenous cells phialides 73-74 (single conidiophores 73, conidiomata 74)

Percurrent 75-77

Sympodial 78-87 (single conidiophores 78-85, conidiomata 86-87)

Blastic chains 88

Thallic solitary 89-90 (colourless 89, dark 90)

Miscellaneous 91-93

DICTYO-

Conidia with appendages 94-95

Conidia small, dark 96

Conidia colourless 97

Percurrent 98

Sympodial 99

Thallic-solitary 100

Chains 101

Conidiomata 100-101

HELICO-

Coils 2-dimensional 102-104 (colourless 102-103, dark 104)

Coils 3-dimensional 105-106

SCOLECO-

Conidia curved, non-septate 107

Conidia curved, septate 108

Conidia long 109

Miscellaneous 110

Conidiomata 111

STAURO-

Conidia with appendages 112

Conidia lobed 113-114

Conidia ornamented 114

Conidia with arms radiating 115

Conidia cheirosporous (digitate) 116

Conidia with short arms 117

Conidia tetraradiate, 1 arm down, 3 upward 118-119

Conidia tetraradiate, 1 arm upward, 3 downward 120-121

Branched hyphal systems 122-123

Miscellaneous 124-127

BULBILS 128-129