conidiophore

Typically the conidiophore terminates in one or a few phialides.

To infect, it produces a conidiophore that then bears conidia.

The stalk is called the conidiophore.

The single celled condia are born in chains on the conidiophore tips.

The conidiophore branches at the tip.

The typical Trichoderma conidiophore, with paired branches assumes a pyramidal aspect.

The fungus produces large, dark brown conidiospores borne on a swollen vesicle at the end of a conidiophore.

Each conidiophore gives rise to three to five phialides, where chains of lemon-shaped conidia are formed.

Conidia develop laterally from pores beneath each conidiophore setpum.

P. teres (teleomorph Drechslera teres) makes up to 3 conidia per conidiophore.

The end of each conidiophore has clusters of 2 or more branches (rami), each supporting a cluster of conideogenous cells called phialides.

Soon after a fly dies from infection with this pathogenic fungus, large primary conidia are produced at the apex of a conidiophore which emerge from the intersegmental membranes.

This pathogen can be distinguished morphologically from Mycosphaerella fijiensis, which causes black leaf streak disease (BLSD), by the characteristics of the conidia and conidiophore.

In a 1979 monograph, John I. Pitt divided Penicillium into four subgenera based on conidiophore morphology and branching pattern: Aspergilloides, Biverticillium, Furcatum, and Penicillium.

When not landing on a suitable host, these spores can germinate to make one of several alternate spore forms, including a smaller version of the original spore, or (in some species) an adhesive spore elevated on a very slender conidiophore called a capilliconidiophore.