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COELOMYCETES (stem- and leaf-fungi)

Warning: Identification questionable
Date: 26 March 2007
Location: Berks, England
Voucher: 26/03/2007[A]
(Please quote this in any queries about this record)
State: Imperfect stage
Record Summary: Dematiaceous hyphomycete on Ornamental Gourd in storage
Associated organism: on fruit of Cucurbita pepo ssp. ovifera
Identification Notes: A storage rot on Ornamental Gourd which hadn't ripened sufficiently.

Abundant greyish-brown walled, projecting, septate setae, darkest and widest (5µm) at slightly sinuous base, base rarely bulbous and then 13µm, tapering to 2.5µm at rounded, hyaline, apex, up to 200µm long.
Conidia: hyaline, aseptate, cylindric to slightly fusiform, ends tapered and curved, to slightly acicular, 20-30/2.5µm
Conidiophores: hyaline, in pustules, growing from blackish basal layer.

Images etc

naked eye photograph Lesion - centre - close-up - enlarged Good 500 by 333 pixels
naked eye photograph Lesion - LS 471 by 500 pixels
naked eye photograph Lesion - margin - close-up - enlarged 500 by 365 pixels
naked eye photograph Lesion - margin - close-up - enlarged 500 by 380 pixels
naked eye photograph Lesion - old 500 by 343 pixels
naked eye photograph Lesion - secondary infection - close-up - enlarged 500 by 333 pixels
naked eye photograph Lesion - young - close-up 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Basal hyphae and conidiophores - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Colony - squash prep - magnified 500 by 442 pixels
microscope photograph Colony - squash prep - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Colony - squash prep - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Conidia - magnified 496 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Conidia - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Conidia - magnified Good 485 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Conidiophores - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Conidiophores and conidia - magnified Good 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Conidiophores and conidia - magnified 500 by 333 pixels
microscope photograph Seta and conidia - magnified Good 412 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Setae - magnified 500 by 378 pixels
microscope photograph Setae and conidia - magnified 333 by 500 pixels
microscope photograph Setae and conidia - magnified Good 500 by 333 pixels

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