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

Aschersonia brunnea Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard., PetchPeradeniya 7: 251. 1921.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Stromata circular, discoid, pulvinate, dark brown (6F4-6), 2.0 mm in diam., ca. 1.2 mm high, internal yellowish brown (5D5-6), margin entire or undulate, base spreading, forming membranous hypothallus, 0.5 mm wide, consisting of densely interwoven hyphae. Hyphae hyaline, smooth- and thick-walled, sometimes swollen, 3.2-8.7 μm wide. Pycnidia embedded in stroma, peripheral, circular, ostiole somewhat depressed, inconspicuous, spherical to flattened globose, 640-720 × 540-640 μm. Conidiophores phialidic, mostly monoverticillate, bearing whorls of 2-6 phialides. Phialides slender, acerose, 13.6-21.6 ×1.0-1.7 μm, paraphyses originating from conidiophore, linear, slender, flexuous, filiform, 54-92 μm long, ca. 1.7 μm wide. Pycnidiospores fusoid, tapering towards both ends, apiculate, one-celled, hyaline, smooth-walled, 11.1-15.1(-18.3) × 1.6-2.4 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taipei County, Wulai, Fushan Botanical Garden, on scale insects (Coccoidea) or whiteflies (Aleyrodidae), homoptera, Ho.276, 22 Apr 1995.

 
 
 
 Habitat: on scale insects (Coccoidea) or whiteflies (Aleyrodidae), homoptera.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Tzean, SS et al. 1997.

   
   
   
 Provided:

S. S. Tzean and L. S. Hsieh

 
 
 Note: newly recorded species.