Paecilomyces farinosus

Powdery Pupa Fungus


Description
Fruit-body club- or rod-shaped, 2-4 cm x 3-5 mm, tough, yellowish, the upper half, which is sometimes slightly thickened, with a white powdery mass of conidia.

Occurrence
Often a few fruit-bodies arise from (moth or) butterfly pupae buried in leaf- or moss-covered soil.
Parasitic.

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