Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Ascomycetes >>  Order: Phyllachorales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Phyllachora bauhiniae var. longispora
 
   
   
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Basionym: Phyllachora bauhiniae var. longispora Theiss & H. Sydow, Annls Mycol. 13:491 1915.

Phyllachora bauhiniae var. longispora (Theiss. & H. Sydow) P. Cannon, Rev. Phyll. Sim. Gen. 74. 1991.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Perithecia epiphyllous, lenticular, 325-460 μm wide, 190-325 μm high, immersed and slightly erumpent, single to gregarious under the intra-subepidermal clypeus, clypeus 50-80 μm thick, surrounding the upper half of perithcium. Peridium 20-38 μm thick, composed of flattened, hyaline to pale brown cells, with interwoven hyphae mixed with host tissue on the outside. Asci periphery in lower half of centrum, cylindrical, 90-110 × 14-20 μm, stipulate, truncate at the apex, with a well developed apical ring, 8-spored, parahysate. Ascospores biseriate in the ascus, elliptical to cylindrical, the middle broader than the two ends, one celled, hyaline, 20-26 × 5-7 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Nantou Hsien, Kuantaouchi, 22 March, 1991, NCHUPP-2212.

 
 
 
 Habitat: On living leaves of Bauhinia championii Benth.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

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 References:

Chen, CY. 1992.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
 Note: This species has been reported by Sawada as Phyllachora bauhiniae Sawada, which is invalid published. The ascospores are smaller in Taiwan specimen.