 Phylum：Ascomycota >> Class： Ascomycetes >> Order： Xylariales |
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NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Linocarpon cajani | |||
| Author： |
Linocarpon cajani Deighton apud Petrak & Deighton, Sydowia 6: 312. 1952. |
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| Description： |
Ascomata developing on brown fallen leaves, amphigenous, gregarious, immersed beneath a black clypeus, dimidiate to conical, 250-312 μm wide, 168-206 μm high, 143-206 μm wide at the base, with a central black papillate ostiole, periphysate. Peridium 14-22 μm at the base, comprising several layers of compressed, brown cells fusing with the clypeus and thin, hyaline cells towards the other region of the wall. Paraphyses filamentous, septate, hyaline, 1.5-3 μm wide at the apex, deliquescent. Asci 63-87 × 9-11 μm, cylindrical, mostly straight, stalked, with a subapical nonamyloid ring, 8-spored. Ascospores 45-77 × 1.5-3 μm, filiform, S-shape or curved, multiseriate, hyaline, aseptate, with a mucilaginous sheath at both the rounded ends. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Taichung Hsien, Pahsienshan, March, 1999, NCHUPP-2551. |
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| Habitat： |
On fallen leaves of Ardisia sp. | |||
| Distribution： |
Paraguay, Sierra Leone, Taiwan, Tanzania. |
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| References： |
Hyde, KD. 1992; Wang, CL. 2000. |
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| Provided： |
W. H. Hsieh |
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| Note： |
This species found on twigs of Cajanus and rachids of Elaeis (oil palm) is a saprophyte with lenticular ascomata (Hyde, 1992). The species found in Taiwan has dimidiate to conical ascomata and reported on a new host. | |||