Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Ascomycetes >>  Order: Xylariales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Lopadostoma turgidum
 
   
   
 Author:

Lopadostoma turgidum (Per. ex Fr.) Traverso, Flora Ital. Cryptog. 1(2): 170. 1906.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Stroma conical or discoid, with zone line under epidermis, enclosing perithecia in diatrypoid configuration. Perithecia depressed globose in one row, 316-474 × 434-750 μm, gregarious up to five united in clusters, with fused, erumpent ostioles. Peridium 44-56 μm thick, composed of melanized and prosenchymatous cells outside and hyaline and compressed cells toward the interior. Paraphyses filiform, septate, hyaline and numerous. Asci unitunicate, basal and peripheral, 57-66 × 4 μm from apex of ascus to the lowest ascospore in ascus, cylindrical, with an amyloid apical ring, long stalked, 8-spored. Ascospores 7-10 × 3-4 μm, narrowly ellipsoid, ends rounded, uniseriate inside ascus, brown to dark brown, aseptate, with a straight germ slit equal to spore length on one side.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taichung Hsien, Pahsienshan, March, 1999., NCHUPP-2549.

 
 
 
 Habitat: On indet. dead wood.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Europe, Taiwan, U.S.A.

 
 
 
 References:

Wang, CL. 2000.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
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