Hypocreaceae
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These fungi are of cosmopolitan distribution especially in moist temperate and tropical forests with many been plant or fungi parasites. They often have bright-colored ascoma (perithecia), ascoma are borne in a bright-colored or light-colored stroma.
Genus: Trichoderma
Trichoderma is a large genus of fast-growing, brightly coloured, green or yellow conidial fungi in Hypocreaceae, best known for their aggressive mycoparasitism, rapid colonisation of substrates, and industrial enzyme production.
Trichoderma Trichoderma sp.
Genus: Hypomyces
A genus of brightly coloured, obligately mycoparasitic fungi that overgrow and distort the fruitbodies of other mushrooms. Infections typically produce powdery, crustose, or pimply stromata that obscure the host’s original morphology.
TrichodermaHypomyces chrysospermus
 
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