Stilbella fimetaria

On dung of various animals, especially dog feces, with matchstick-like synnemata 0.5 to 2 mm high, with a cylindrical white stipe and a globose orange head, growing gregariously in large numbers, often forming small concrescent clusters of several specimens.

Synnemata with head diameter of 180 to 450 µm, reaching up to 900 µm in concrescent specimens.

Stipe hyphae hyaline, smooth to slightly verrucose, 2 to 3 µm in diameter.

Conidiophores hyaline, thin-walled, 2 to 2.5 µm wide.

Conidiogenous cells arising both laterally and terminally, the terminal ones bearing 2 to 4 branches, with phialides 30 to 50 µm long and 1.4 to 1.8 µm wide.

Conidia ellipsoidal, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, 3.5 to 5.5 µm long, 2 to 3 µm wide, with homogeneous contents.

Herbarium material available: JTP2303/24.