Trichoderma neorufum

Study corresponding to the sexual or teleomorph stage, known as Hypocrea neorufa.

Internal tissue hyphae pseudoparenchymatous in appearance, with globose to polygonal hyphae, up to 30 µm in diameter, hyaline and thin-walled.

At the base it presents more elongate, cylindrical, hyaline hyphae, only up to 5 µm wide.

Asci cylindrical, uniseriate, with 8 ascospores that disarticulate within the ascus into 16 part-spores, up to 90 µm long and 4-5 µm wide, without basal croziers, inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.

Ascospores subglobose to cylindrical, hyaline, very slightly verrucose-walled, with very faint intracellular pigment inside.