Microconidia: Absent

 

Macroconidia: stout, thick-walled, ventrally and dorsally curved, foot-shaped to slightly notched foot cell

 

Conidiophores: branched and unbranched monophialides.

 

Chlamydospores: Abundant, produced singly, in chains and in clumps

 

Perfect State: Unknown.

 

On PDA: rapid growth, profuse aerial mycelium with carmine red undersurface. Resembles F. graminearum, F. cerealis and other members of the G. zeae species complex.