Sarcopodium tortuosum

An anamorph originally described as Sporotrichum tortuosum, with sporodochium-like fruit bodies, orange, filamentous in appearance, with a center up to 0.25 mm across, colonizing scattered but massively the surface of a decaying stump; pending confirming molecular studies, it is suspected that the species may represent the anamorph of Lasiobelonium.

Abundant seta-like hairs, strongly twisted—giving rise to its specific epithet (tortuosum)—brown, thick-walled, 300 to 400 µm long and 2.5 to 3 µm wide.

Conidiophores cylindrical to subcylindrical, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, 45 to 50 µm long and 3.5 to 4.5 µm wide.

At the tips of these conidiophores are the conidiogenous cells covering the central mass of the fruit body completely, 8 to 12 µm long and 1 to 2 µm wide.

These conidiogenous cells continuously produce cylindrical, hyaline, thin-walled conidia, 5 to 7 µm long and 1 to 1.5 µm wide.