Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Ascomycetes >>  Order: Dothideales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Melanomma pyriostictum
 
   
   
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Melanomma pyriostictum Cooke, Grevillea 15: 83. 1887.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Ascomata immersed, becoming superficial by shedding of the host epidermis, immersed base, scattered or gregarious, sometimes confluent, subglobose to conical, papillate, 272-371 μm wide, 249-370 μm high. Peridium 35-58 μm thick, thickened towards the apex, composed of small, polygonal, pseudoparenchymatous cells. Pseudoparaphyses hyaline, filiform, branched, 1.6 μm wide. Asci 106-142 × 8-10 μm, bitunicate, basal and peripheral, cylindrical, stalked, apex obtuse, 8-spored. Ascospores 12.6-18 × 5.5-7 μm, oblong to ellipsoid, ends rounded, uniseriate inside ascus, greenish brown, wall smooth, 3-septate, often constricted at primary septum.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taichung County, Anmashan, July, 1999, NCHUPP-2563.

 
 
 
 Habitat: In indet. wood.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Britain, Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Wang, CL. 2000.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
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