Type: Beauveria_bassiana (Bals.-Criv.) Vuill. Description: The genus is characterized morphologically by sympodial, short, and globose to flask-shaped phialides from which one-celled, holoblastic conidia are produced. The characteristics of the conidia, being hyaline, smooth-walled, single-celled with variable shapes–globose, cylindrical, ellipsoidal, vermiform, and reniform–are the main morphological features used to distinguish between species of Beauveria. Host: Soil, insects, phylloplanes and occasionally from living plant tissues.

Reference: Rehner SA, Minnis AM, Sung GH, et al. (2011). Phylogeny and systematics of the anamorphic, entomopathogenic genus Beauveria. Mycologia103: 1055–1073. https://doi.org/10.3852/10-302