 Phylum：Anamorphic fungi >> Class： Anamorphic fungi >> Order： Anamorphic fungi |
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NO BCRC Number! | |||
| Scientific Name： |
Aschersonia cubensis | |||
| Author： |
Aschersonia cubensis Berk. & Curtis, Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 351. 1869. |
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| Description： |
Stromata hemispherical, subglobose, subconoid, subconoid to pulvinate, light orange (5A5), orange to brownish orange (6B-C7), 0.8-1.5 mm in diam., ca. 1.0 mm high, base spreading, forming thin translucent hypothallus, white to orange, ca. 0.5 mm wide, consisting of densely interwoven hyphae. Hyphae hyaline, smooth-, thick-walled, sometimes swollen, 4.4-5.6 μm wide. Pycnidia embedded in stroma, peripheral, circular, ovoid, flattened globose, to globose, occasionally irregular, 160-340 × 140-400 μm, orifices often covered with pale yellow to light yellow (3A3-4) pycnidiospores. Conidiophores phialidic, solitary, irregular, or verticillate, bearing whorls of 2-3 phialides. Phialides slender, acerose, 10.6-19.5 × 1.4-2.0 μm, paraphyses absent. Pycnidiospores fusoid to broadly fusoid, ends tapering, apiculate or pointed, one-celled, hyaline, smooth-walled, 11.1-13.5 × 3.2-4.8 μm. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Taipei County, Wulai, Fushan, on scale insects (Coc-coidea) or whiteflies (Aleyrodidae), Homoptera, Ho.228, 15 Oct 1994. |
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| Habitat： |
on scale insects (Coccoidea) or whiteflies (Aleyrodidae), Homoptera. | |||
| Distribution： |
Taiwan, USA. |
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| References： |
Tzean, SS et al. 1997. |
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| Provided： |
S. S. Tzean and L. S. Hsieh |
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| Note： |
newly recorded species. | |||