Branches 3–6.5 μm wide, with widenings to 10 μm, each with a solitary terminal phialide. Phialides consisting of a long cylindrical main body (14–)22–32(–38) μm × (3.5–)4–6(–7) μm, l/w (3–)4–7(–8), learn more (1.7–)3.2–4.8(–5.6) μm wide at the base (n = 32), terminally often dichotomously or irregularly branched, each branch with (1–)2–3(–6) parallel or divergent terminal ‘fingers’, rarely unbranched and subulate, sometimes branched at lower levels to produce 2–3 groups of fingers; fingers

(1–)2–8(–12) × 1.2–1.7(–2) μm, l/w (0.7–)1.3–5.4(–8.6) (n = 30), cylindrical, LY3039478 straight or curved, rarely separated by a septum from the main body; producing conidia in colourless wet heads to 40(–50) μm diam. Conidia (3.5–)5–10(–15) × 2.2–3.7(–5.0) μm, l/w (1.4–)2.0–3.3(–4.3) (n = 33), hyaline, cylindrical, straight, curved to allantoid, less commonly ellipsoidal, oval or kidney-shaped in age, smooth, with few minute guttules or eguttulate, scar indistinct. At 15°C colony compact, dense, thick, finely downy, indistinctly zonate, whitish, reverse becoming yellowish 3–4A3–4 to brownish 5B4–5; conidiation denser than at 25°C. On MEA colony hyaline to white, dense, homogeneous, long aerial hyphae frequent; conidiophores frequent, erect, simple

and with 1 terminal phialide, or basally branched or as a series of branches loosely emerging from aerial hyphae, 6–7.5 μm wide at the base, within a short distance attenuated to 2 μm. Phialides solitary, terminal on branches, (2.3–)2.5–3.7(–4.7) VX-689 cost μm (n = 28) wide at the base, variable, sometimes subulate, sometimes branched into 2 whorls of 3–4 fingers; fingers commonly separated by a septum; including the fingers (5–)18–41(–46) × (2.5–)3.2–4.5(–5.2) μm, l/w (1.3–)4.4–11(–15), often widest at branching points. Conidia 6–11(–15) × (2.3–)2.7–4.2(–6.0) μm, l/w (1.6–)2–3(–4) (n = 32), hyaline, cylindrical, sometimes ellipsoidal or irregular, e.g. constricted in the middle, smooth, scar indistinct or truncate. On SNA 3.5–5.5 mm at 15°C, Endonuclease 4.5–7 mm at 25°C after 72 h; growth terminating after 2 weeks before covering the entire plate.

Colony hyaline, thin, resembling ice crystals, with little mycelium on the surface, irregular density, irregularly oriented marginal hyphae; mycelium degenerating early, with only loose marginal strands growing. Aerial hyphae scant, mostly short and little branched. Autolytic activity variable, excretions minute; no coilings seen. No pigment, no distinct odour noted. Conidiation after 2–3 days, scant. Structure as described above. Habitat: usually in large numbers on a white subiculum on bark, less commonly wood, of conifers at upper montane to subalpine altitudes. Distribution: Europe (Austria, Estonia, Germany, Ukraine). One collection reported by G.J. Samuels (pers. comm.) from the Blue Mts. Natl. Park near Sydney, Australia, agrees well with H.