 Phylum：Ascomycota >> Class： Ascomycetes >> Order： Dothideales |
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NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Glonium curtisii | |||
| Author： |
Basionym: Hysterium curtisii Duby, Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Geneve 16:30. 1862. Glonium curtisii (Duby) Lohman, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 64:66. 1937. |
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| Description： |
Ascomata aggregated or dispersed, 0.5-0.8 mm long, erumpent, becoming superficial, with immersed and flattened base, oval or ellipsoid, opening by a longitudinal slit, 167-273 μm high, 214-282 μm wide. Peridium 47-82 μm wide at sides, carbonaceous, brittle, becoming thin or absent at ascomatal base, composed of black or dark brown, polygonal cells. Pseudoparaphyses numerous, filiform, branched, anastomosing above asci, 0.8-1.6 μm wide, thickened at apex, with short stipitate, 8-spored. Ascospores 35-39 × 8.7-10 μm, oblong to cylindrical, straight or slightly curved, hyaline at first then becoming pale brown to dark brown, biseriate inside ascus, 2-celled, with a septum below the middle, the upper bigger cell, 19-21 × 8.7-10 μm, the lower smaller one, 12.6-19 × 7.9-10 μm, often with a guttule in each cell. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Nantou County, Kuantaochi, May, 1999, NCHUPP-2573. |
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| Habitat： |
On indet. dead wood. | |||
| Distribution： |
Brazil, Taiwan, U. S. A. |
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| References： |
Barr, ME. 1975; Wang, CL. 2000; Zogg, H. 1962. |
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| Provided： |
W. H. Hsieh |
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| Note： |
Barr (1975) described the size of ascospores from the type specimen of Glonium curtisii as (45)62-82 × (10)12-15(-17) μm. However, Zogg (1962) reported a collection from Brazil as G. curtisii with somewhat smaller ascospores, (31-)35-45 (-53) × (8-)9-11(-13) μm. The size of ascospores in this specimen is 35-39 × 8.7-10 μm and is similar to G. curtisii. | |||