Saprobe, although sometimes associated with leaf spots.
Morphology
Conidiophores arising singly or in small groups, pale to golden brown, up to 50 µm long, 3–6 µm thick, with one or more distinct conidial scars. Conidia in branched chains of up to 15–20, sometimes separated by short secondary conidiophores, straight or slightly curved, obclavate, obpyriform, ovoid or ellipsoidal, with a short cylindrical beak, 7–25(–40) µm long, 5–12 µm wide, olivaceous, variously warted to verrucose, 1–7 (commonly 3) transverse septa, 0–2 longitudinal or oblique septa, constricted at septa.
Notes
This species, although commonly identified as such, is very much a species complex. Simmons (2007) gives an account of what he regards as the typical morphological type.
