Acremonium
A Dictionary of Plant Sciences | Date: 1998
Acremonium (class Hyphomycetes) A
form genus of
fungi which form
septate mycelia and which produce
conidia in
phialids. Some species produce
antibiotics called cephalosporins. (The form genus includes fungi formerly called
Cephalosporium.)
© A Dictionary of Plant Sciences 1998, originally published by Oxford University Press 1998.
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