Phylum：Anamorphic fungi　>>　Class： Anamorphic fungi　>>　 Order： Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
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　Scientific Name： Aschersonia basicystis
 
   
   
　Author：

Aschersonia basicystis Berk. & Curtis, Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 352. 1869.

Aschersonia basicystis Berk. Z. M. A. Curtis Journ, Linn. Soc. 10:352. 1867.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Stromata hemispherical to stud-shaped, sometimes pulvinate, 0.8-2.5 mm in diam., about 1.0 mm high, white to yellowish white (3A2) when fresh, becoming orange white, pale or-ange, light orange (5A2-4), sometimes greyish orange (5B3), brownish orange (5C3) to brown (7E5-6) in age, base surrounded by dense weft of mycelium, orange white (5A2), 0.3-1.0 mm in diam., often more or less covered by a copious mass of extruded pycnidiospores, light yellow (2A4-5) to deep yellow (4A8). Pycnidia flask-shaped, subglobose to ovoid, 140-440 × 100-400 μm, aggregated or scattered, ostiole wide. Conidiophores phialidic, mono-, biverticillate, or irregular, bearing whorls of 2-4 phialides. Phialides cylindrical, slightly curved, 7.5-15.7 × 1.6-2.5 μm, paraphyses absent. Pycnidiospores fusoid, both ends abruptly tapering, acerose, guttulate, one-celled, hyaline, (9.5-)12.7-16.7(-19.1) × 2.4-3.6 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan, Kaohsiung County, Liukuei, Shanping, on scale insects (Coccoidea) or whiteflies (Aleyrodidae), Homoptera, Ho.166, 5 Feb 1991.
 
 
 
　Habitat： on scale insects (Coccoidea) or whiteflies (Aleyrodidae), Homoptera.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Taiwan, Venezuela, Caribbean.
 
 
 
　References：

Tzean, SS et al. 1997.
   
   
   
　Provided：

S. S. Tzean and L. S. Hsieh
 
 
　Note： newly recorded species.