Phylum:Anamorphic fungi >> Class: Anamorphic fungi >>  Order: Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Coronospora dendrocalami
 
   
   
 Author:

Coronospora dendrocalami M. B. Ellis, Mycol. Pap. 125:16-17. 1971..

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Colonies diameter on Oat Meal Agar larger than 64 mm in 80 days at 25°C, inconspicuous, hyaline or with olive brown sport scattered; reverse hyaline to olive brown. Mycelium sparse, immersed, composed of branched, septate, smooth, hyaline to subhyaline, 1.6-3.6 μm wide hyphae. Conidiophores macronematous, mononematous, often fasciculate, rarely single, straight or curved, septate, smooth or near so, brown, thick-walled, paler or thinner towards the apex, 136.0-272.0 × 5.4-9.2 μm. Conidiogenous cells polyblastic, sympodial, cicatrized, sometimes percurrent proliferation. Conidia acropleurogenous, ellipsoidal or clavate, 2-septate, smooth, pale brown, 26.8-37.3 × 9.6-14.1 μm, often swollen and becoming crowned, with 3-short horns at the apex, basal scar up to 3.2-4.1 μm wide.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Huisun, Nantow Pref., on rotten leaf of Phyllostachys pubescens, 10 Feb. 1993. TNTU 1069. leg. J.L. Chen.

 
 
 
 Habitat: on rotten leaf of Phyllostachys pubescens
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Taiwan, Myanmar.

 
 
 
 References:

Ellis, 1971.1976; Matsushima, 1980.

   
   
   
 Provided:

J. L. Chen and S. S. Tzean

 
 
 Note: This species is characterized by producing pale brown, 2-septate starurospores with 3-short horns at the apical call.