Phialophora is a form genus of fungus with short conidiophores, sometimes reduced to phialides; their conidia are unicellular. They may be parasites (including on humans), or saprophytic (including on apples).
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Phialophora is a form genus of fungus with short conidiophores, sometimes reduced to phialides; their conidia are unicellular. They may be parasites (including on humans), or saprophytic (including on apples).
Genetic analysis of Phialophora shows that it is a paraphyletic grouping.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).