 Phylum：Ascomycota >> Class： Ascomycetes >> Order： Trichosphaeriales |
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 BCRC Number： |
NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Porosphaerella cordanophora | |||
| Author： |
Porosphaerella cordanophora E. Müller & Samuels, Sydowia 35: 150. 1982. |
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| Description： |
Subiculum inconspicuous, superficial, composed of sparsely interwoven hyphae that penetrate deeply into host tissues. Ascomata superficial to partly immersed in subiculum, scattered, solitary to gregarious, broadly ovate to subglobose, 155-240 μm diam., with a papillate, periphysate ostiole. Peridial hyphae protruding from the sides and base of ascoma and intermixed with hyphae of the subiculum. Peridium 15-25 μm wide, composed of dark brown, thick-walled, polygonal to oblong cells. Asci 65-85 × 5-7 μm, cylindrical, basal, unitunicate, shortly stipitate, with an inconspicuous, non-amyloid apical ring, and maturing at different times. Paraphyses 1.5-2.5 μm wide, branched at upper part, gutullate. Ascosportes 10-14 × 4-5 μm, elliptical to elliptic-fusiform, 1-septate at middle, brown, with germ pores at both ends. Conidiophores and conidia of the anamorph found near the ascomata, but conidia not found attached with conidiophores. Conidia 9-12 × 5-6 μm, broadly elliptical to ovoid, dark brown, with a dark and thick septa in the middle, hilum at both ends, Conidiophores subulate, 4-6 μm wide, up to 180 μm long, erect, unbranched, pale to dark brown, with a basal swelling that produces rooting hyphae to anchor to the host and penetrate into the host tissues. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Yilan Hsien, Tulin, 29 April, 1995, NCHUPP-2377 . |
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| Habitat： |
On dead branches of trees. | |||
| Distribution： |
Europe, New Zealand, North America, Taiwan. |
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| References： |
Chen, CY and Hsieh, WH. 1997; Müller, E. and Samuels, GJ. 1982. |
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| Provided： |
W. H. Hsieh |
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| Note： |
The connection between Porospharella cordanophora and Cordana pauciseptata was established by Müller and Samuels (1982). | |||