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Mycogone Molds
1 species
A genus of mycoparasitic molds (Hypocreaceae, Hypocreales) described by Link in 1809 for M. rosea. They grow on the fruit bodies of mushrooms and some other fungi, and are known by their asexual spores. About 28 species are listed, but few have DNA data. The best-known member, the wet bubble fungus of button mushroom farms (Mycogone perniciosa), is now treated as Hypomyces perniciosus.
Fungicolous; sexual morph undetermined for the type. Aleurioconidia: solitary, dry, globose or pear-shaped, two-celled (one septum, not constricted); upper cell larger, yellow-brown to black, thick-walled, tuberculate or spiny; lower cell smaller, conical or barrel-shaped, thin-walled. Phialidic stage: verticillate conidiophores bearing hyaline, ovoid to clavate phialoconidia in shiny heads.
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