Phylum：Ascomycota　>>　Class： Ascomycetes　>>　 Order： Pleosporales 
   
 
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　Scientific Name： Leptosphaeria australiensis
 
   
   
　Author：

Leptosphaeria australiensis (Cribb & J. W. Cribb) G. C. Hughes, Syesis 2: 132. 1969.

≡ Metasphaeria australiensis Cribb & J. W. Cribb, Univ. Queensl. Pap., Dep. Bot. 3: 79. 1955.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Ascomata 140-150 μm high, 125-185 μm in diameter, solitary or gregarious, obpyriform, immersed, ostiolate, papillate, coriaceous, brown to dark brown, lighter colored at the base. Necks 100-150 μm long, 40-50 μm in diameter, conical or subcylindrical, centric, periphysate, hyaline. Pseudoparaphyses present. Asci 86-106 × 10-15 μm, eight-spored, clavate or fusiform, pedunculate, with an annulus apical apparatuse, thin-walled, bitunicate, persistent. Ascospores 21-26 × 7-9 μm, biseriate, clavate, three-septate, slightly constricted at the septa, hyaline, nonappendaged.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Miaoli, Tunghsiao, 14 Jul. 1990, TS0714-19.
 
 
 
　Habitat： Saprobic on driftwood, mangrove wood.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Malaysia; Thailand; Brunei; Hawaii; Seychelles; Taiwan.
 
 
 
　References：

Hughes, GC. 1969; Hsieh, SY et al. 2002.
   
   
   
　Provided：

S. Y. Hsieh
 
 
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