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Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
ASCOMYCOTA
(spore-shooters)
ASCOMYCETES
(spore shooters)
SORDARIOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of ascomycetes and lichens)
HYPOCREALES
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NECTRIACEAE
(a family of pyrenomycetes)
Calonectria pyrochroa
(a pyrenomycete)
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Calonectria pyrochroa (Desm.) Sacc., 1878 (a pyrenomycete)

Date: 19 November 2006
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 19/11/2006[A]
(Please quote this in any queries about this record)
State: Fruitbody
Record Summary: on fallen, dead, black, wet, rotting, Holly leaves
Associated organism: on fallen, dead, black, wet, rotting leaf of Ilex aquifolium
Identification Notes: Four leaves with colonies on underside, but one leaf with colony on upper side.

Perithecia: rough-walled, globular, golden-yellow, with brown-ringed ostiole when mature, superficial, in troops, each seated on a small red-brown hyphal mat, mostly hypophyllous.
Ascospores: fusiform, 3-septate, cells unswollen, 64/7µm, and forming a single fascicle in ascus (multiseriate).

Anamorph not seen.

Images etc

magnified photograph Perithecia - immature - damp - enlarged 500 by 372 pixels
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magnified photograph Perithecia - immature - damp - enlarged 500 by 333 pixels
magnified photograph Perithecia - immature - damp - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
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magnified photograph Perithecia - mature - dry - lateral view - magnified 500 by 221 pixels
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naked eye photograph Perithecia on leaf upper surface 500 by 319 pixels
naked eye photograph Perithecia on leaf under surface - only a few 500 by 346 pixels
naked eye photograph Perithecia on leaf under surface 500 by 349 pixels
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microscope photograph Ascospores - magnified 455 by 500 pixels
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microscope photograph Ascospores in asci - magnified 500 by 451 pixels
microscope photograph Ostiole - magnified 500 by 406 pixels
microscope photograph Perithecial wall - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Perithecial wall - magnified 500 by 420 pixels
microscope photograph Squash prep - magnified 500 by 462 pixels

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