Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Ascomycetes >>  Order: Dothideales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Paranectriella arcuata
 
   
   
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Basionym: Calonectriella arcuata Hansf., Mycol. Pap. 15:119. 1946.

Paranectriella arcuata (Hansf.) Rossman, Mycol. Pap. 157: 24. 1987.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Pseudoperithecia parasitizing on Microcyclus, numerous, loosely scattered, globose, to subglobose, slightly ostiolate, pale orange, 70-90 × 64-98 μm. Ostioles 10-14 μm in diam. Setae over the surface loose, simple, straight, obtuse, thick-walled, 30-46 × 3-4 μm. Asci not numerous, bitunicate, long ellipsoid, wide clavate, rounded at the apex, with a short stalk, 8-spored, 40-76 × 14-20 μm, pseudoparaphysate. Ascospores biseriate, fusiform, gradually attenuate at both ends, with a straight or slightly curved hyaline cellular appendage at each end, 3-septate, very slightly constriction at the septa, hyaline, 30-34 × 7-10 μm. Appendages 3-5 × 1.0 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Nantou County, Piluchi, 29 June, 1989, NCHUPP-2039.

 
 
 
 Habitat: On Microcyclus pruni on living leaves of Prunus phaeosticta (Hance) Maxim.var. ilicifolia Yamamoto.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Republic of South Africa, Taiwan, Uganda.

 
 
 
 References:

Hansford, CG. 1946; Hennings, P. 1904; Li, LT. and Hsieh, WH. 1991.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
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