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Dry Bubble Fungi
1 species
A genus of Cordycipitaceae (Hypocreales) introduced in 2024 for species formerly placed in Lecanicillium, during a revision of Akanthomyces in the broad sense. Its best-known member is Zarea fungicola (formerly Lecanicillium fungicola, and before that Verticillium fungicola), the cause of dry bubble disease, the most common fungal disease of the white button mushroom.
Asexual morph lecanicillium-like (verticillium-like): hyaline, phialidic hyphomycetes with slender phialides, single or in whorls, bearing small, sticky conidia in slimy heads. Fungicolous (Z. fungicola) on cultivated mushroom fruit bodies.
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