Culture. N . Conidiophores with verticillately placed conidiogenous cells bearing conidia at their guidelines. R . Conidia. U. Hyphae turning from initial yellow to purple in KOH. V, W. Chlamydospores. (A, H, I. TU 112902; B, G, J. BPI 749247; C, K. TFC 97-138; D, E. Holotype, BPI 748258; F. TU 112903; L, M. TU 112901; N, S, V. TFC 00-30; O . TFC 200789; R, U. Ex-type culture, G.J.S. 98-28; T, W. G.J.S. 96-41). Scale bars: A = 1 cm; B, C = 500 m; D, K, L = 250 m; E, O = 100 m; F, H = 50 m; G, M, N, P, Q, U = 20 m; PubMed ID:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21261711 I, J, R , V, W = 10 m. www.studiesinmycology.orgP dMaa Colonies on MEA spreading rapid, reaching 450 mm in four d; margin even or slightly fasciculate; reverse initially yellow, turning purplish red; yellowish brown, round or fan-shaped crystals and or pigment patches with needle-like margins, turning deep purple in KOH, abundant in agar. Odour sweet or bitter-sweet, strong in not too long ago isolated cultures, disappearing in old cultures. Aerial mycelium scanty to abundant, cottony, to 7 mm higher or 2mm in cultures order Val-Cit-PAB-MMAE producing teleomorph; mostly homogenous, occasionally with tufts; yellowish white, amber or buff, partially turning violet in KOH. Submerged hyphae typically turning violet in KOH, cells infrequently swollen. Conidiation abundant in fresh isolates, becoming moderate to scarce in older strains. Conidiophores arising from aerial hyphae at appropriate angles, not differentiated from these or distinct with main axis yellowish ochraceous, KOH+ and wall slightly thickened; ascending to suberect, 20000(000) m long, primary axis close to base 40 m wide; branching profuse or occasionally sparse, verticillate or irregular, sometimes drepanoid, widely distributed, from time to time confined to uppermost components, conidiophores then appearing irregularly tree-like in aspect; lateral branches formed at 1 levels, 1 creating from 1 point, 300 3.five.five m. Conidiogenous cells formed straight on conidiophores or from lateral branches which might be generally integrated inside a prior verticil of conidiogenous cells, building singly or (23() in a verticil, often singly beneath verticil; subulate, 250 m extended, two.five.five m wide near base, attenuating progressively to 0.8.0 m at apex; aseptate; forming one particular conidiogenous locus at apex. Conidiaellipsoidal to fusiform, extended obovoid i.e. droplet-shaped or often widest in lower half (oblong-ovoid); equi- or inequilateral, straight but in some cases with basal or each ends curved; attenuated at base to a narrow but prominent central hilum, normally attenuated also at apex; (9.511.72.2(six.five) (four.05.4.two (.0) m, Q = (1.62.2.eight(.six); 1-septate, in 1-septate conidia septum median or in upper 13 or 23; hyaline or occasionally with tinge of green when old, with refractive thickening at base or from time to time also at apex; formed obliquely from uppermost locus, held by (12() in imbricate chains appearing as radiating heads. Chlamydospores formed among aerial or submerged mycelium, hyaline; cells subglobose, 133 m diam, wall 1 m thick, smooth; two cells in intercalary chains or in lateral, irregular chains or sclerotia-like aggregations formed from an intercalary cell. Perithecia produced in abundance in current cultures isolated from ascospores. Substrata: Basidiomata of several wood-decaying members of Agaricales, Hymenochaetales and Polyporales, also on Auriculariales; in some collections host fungus not detected after which observed growing on bark, wood or linked with other ascomycetes. Distribution: Tropical America. Holotype: Puerto Rico, Luquillo, Chicken Farm, on.