Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Ascomycetes >>  Order: Xylariales 
   
 
 BCRC Number NO BCRC Number!  
   
 Scientific Name: Pseudomassaria islandica
 
   
   
 Author:

Pseudomassaria islandica (Johans.) Barr, Mycologia 56: 854. 1964.

Basionym: Venturia islandica Johanson, öfver. Kongl. Vet.-Akad. Förh. 9:168. 1884.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Leaf spots epihyllous, circular, brown in the center dark brown at the margin, 3-15 mm in diam. Perithecia epiphyllous, immersed, globose or pyriform, scattered, apex erumpent, brown, ostiolate, setae absent, 101-157 μm in diam. Asci clavate, unitunicate, with a narrow long stalk, apex thickened, and sometimes somewhat truncate, with an apical ring, 8-spored, 110-118 × 17-20 μm. Ascospores ellipsoid, ends rounded, straight to inequilateral, 1-septate in the lower third, constricted, the upper cell wider and longer then the lower cell, biseriate at the lower part, yellowish, 15-25 × 7-11 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taichung Hsien, Kukuan, 10 Jan. 1989, NCHUPP-2023.

 
 
 
 Habitat: On living leaves of Bauhinia championi Benth.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

North America, Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Li, LT and Hsieh, WH. 1991.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. H. Hsieh

 
 
 Note: null