Stilbella (original) (raw)

Stilbella is a genus of fungi in the family Bionectriaceae (order Hypocreales). A 1985 monograph includes 19 species. More recent estimates place about 60 species in the genus. The type species Stilbella fimetaria (Pers.) Lindau 1905 (syn. Stilbella erythrocephala (Ditmar) Lindau 1900) has a cosmopolitan distribution and grows on herbivore dung. It has pink or orange slimy conidia on white synnemata with phialidic conidiogenous cells. Several species have since been reclassified in other genera based on DNA phylogenies or the discovery of sexual states, such as , Stilbocrea, and Trichoderma.