Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Ascomycetes >>  Order: Hypocreales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Heleococcum japonense
 
   
   
 Author:

Heleococcum japonense Tubaki, Trans. Mycol. Soc. Jpn. 8: 5. 1967.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Ascomata 400-640 μm in diameter, gregarious, globose, superficial, non-ostiolate, epapillate, membranous, white to pale brown, cleistothecial. Paraphyses absent. Asci 42-66 × 30-46 μm, eight-spored, globose or subglobose, sessile, without an apical apparatuse, thin-walled, unitunicate, persistent. Ascospores 16-23 × 10-15 μm, broad ellipsoidal or subglobose, one-septum, smooth, thick-walled, hyaline, not constricted at the septum, nonappendaged.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Chiayi, Tungshih(嘉義東石), 1 Nov. 1989, TH1101-11.

 
 
 
 Habitat: Saprobic on intertidal wood of mangrove, bamboo.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Japan; Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Tubaki, K. 1967; Hsieh, SY et al. 2002.

   
   
   
 Provided:

S. Y. Hsieh

 
 
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