Thielavia microspora Mouch. 1973

Cocos nucifera.

Egypt; India (Kerala).

Colonies. On oatmeal-agar with a daily growth rate of 3-4 mm at 30°C, soon becoming greyish-brown; aerial mycelium composed of colourless or brownish, septate, sometimes verrucose, 1.5-3 μm wide hyphae; forming "chlamydospores" which are clavate, ellipsoidal or roundish, colourless, 4-10 × 3-5 μm, and lateral, terminal or intercalary on the aerial hyphae. Ascomata. Spherical, non-ostiolate, 50-200 (-350) μm diam., with a 3-6 μm thick wall, forming a textura epidermoidea, composed of brown, flattened, 2-5 μm wide hyphal cells, surrounded by a weft of brown, septate, branched, often appendage-like, 1.5-3 μm wide hyphae. Asci. Obovate or ellipsoidal, evanescent, 8-spored, 15-25 × 10-15 μm. Ascospores. Broadly fusiform or ellipsoidal, at one end with a rather distinct germ pore, at the other end often slightly apiculate, brown when mature, with a rather thick wall, 8-10 × 5.5-6.5 μm. Paraphyses. Not observed.

Thielavia microspora je grzib, co go ôpisoł Mouch. 1973. Thielavia microspora nŏleży do zorty Thielavia i familije Chaetomiaceae. Żŏdne podgatōnki niy sōm wymianowane we Catalogue of Life.