Astrosphaeriella africana D. Hawksw. in D. Hawksw. and Boise, Sydowia 38: 116. 1985..
Description：
Ascomata scattered, immersed, raising the overlying host tissue, hemispherical, 700-800 μm wide, 300-360 μm high, apex papillate, usually elongated to become a neck, flattened at base. Peridium laterally merging with the host tissue to form a shield-like clypeus, much reduced at base, exhibiting a palisade-like arrangement of cells at the rim margin. Asci clavate, 110-130 x 12-14 μm, long stalked, stalk up to 40 μm long, 8-spored. Pseudoparaphyses embedded in gelatinous matrix, frequently branched and anastomosing, 1-1.5 μm wide. Ascospores fusiform, 40-54 x 5-7 μm, acute or occasionally swollen at ends, brown, striate, 1-septate, septum usually slightly constricted, median or supra-median, broadest on the upper cell near the septum, occasionally becoming 3-septate, overlapping bi-triseriate in upper part of ascus and uniseriate below.
Specimens：
Taichung Hsien, Kukuan, on indet. bamboo, 5 Apr. 2001, C.Y. Chen (NCHUPP c0105); Paileng, on Bambusa oldhamii, 19 Aug. 2001, C.Y. Chen (NCHUPP c0215)
Habitat：
On bamboo.
Distribution：
Australia, Brunei, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, Tanzania.
References：
Chen, CY and Hsieh, WH. 2004a; Hyde, KD and Fr?hlich, J. 1997.
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Note：
A. africana, with immersed hemispherical clypeate ascomata, can readily be recognized by the protruded necks on surface view.
Phylum：Anamorphic fungi >> Class： Anamorphic fungi >> Order： Anamorphic fungi 
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