M. Saikawa et al., ELECTRON-MICROSCOPY OF AMEBA-CAPTURING DACTYLELLA-TYLOPAGA, SHOWING THE MORPHOLOGY OF A BASIDIOMYCETE, Mycologia, 86(4), 1994, pp. 474-477
Dactylella tylopaga, a hyphomycete capturing terrestrial amoebae with
adhesive knobs, showed the ultrastructural morphology of the Basidiomy
cota in that the cross walls in the hyphae were dolipore septa with pa
renthesomes. The parenthesomes were flattened and imperforate. The con
idium (40 x 2-3 mu m) of the fungus was composed of two cells with the
upper cell bearing an apical, tubular extension. On one occasion, one
of the conidia on an agar plate produced teardrop-shaped microconidia
(2.5-3 x 1.5-1.8 mu m) on sterigmatic outgrowths of each cell of the
two-celled conidium.