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A new coprophilous HyphomyceteBasifimbria spinosa Buffin and Hennebert is described. The fungus is characterized by sympodial conidiophores producing two intergrading types of successive blastoconidia. The onesArthrobotrys-like, unseptate, elliptical and smooth, born on successive denticulate swelling apices of the conidiophore; the others areBasifimbria-like, sphaerical and spinose, born on irregularly denticulate zig-zag conidiophores. The whole range of the conidiogenetical variation may occur on the same conidiophore. This pleoanamorphic fungus is, however, given one binomial only.
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Buffin, N., Hennebert, G.L. Basifimbria spinosa, a new pleoanamorphic coprophilous hyphomycete. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 94, 259–267 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03053142
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