Drechslerella acrochaeta

Drechslerella acrochaeta is the type species of Drechslerella, a genus of microscopic soil moulds that catch nematodes with constricting rings. It was described by Drechsler in 1952 as Dactylella acrochaeta and moved to Drechslerella by Subramanian. Little species-level information has been published beyond its conidia.

Species profile

Edibility

Not edible

Not edible; a microscopic mould with no food use.

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Characteristics

Trap: stalked, three-celled constricting rings (genus character; Scholler et al. 1999). Conidiophores: simple, each bearing a single conidium (Cooke & Godfrey key, as Monacrosporium acrochaetum). Conidia: sub-fusiform to fusiform, 1-2-septate (Zhang et al. 2023 key). Subramanian separated Drechslerella from Monacrosporium using filamentous appendages at the conidial apex; Liu & Zhang (1994) judged this an unstable character because it can form during germination (as summarised by Zhang et al. 2023).

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