BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Leptostroma Fr., 1815 (a genus of coelomycetes)
| Warning: | Identification questionable |
| Date: | 16 March 2007 |
| Location: | Berks, England |
| Voucher: | 16/03/2007[A] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
| State: | Imperfect stage |
| Record Summary: | black patches on dead rachis of Royal Fern |
| Associated organism: | on dead rachis of Osmunda regalis |
| Identification Notes: | Pycnidia elongate, confluent, often becoming slightly reticulate; surface slightly shiny, slightly bulging when fertile, otherwise very thin; contents hyaline. Conidia: cylindric-ovoid, rounded at blunt end, hyaline, 10-12/2µm. Conidia too large for Leptostroma osmundicola |
Images etc
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Pycnidia - close-up - enlarged | 500 by 198 pixels | ||
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Pycnidia - close-up - enlarged | 500 by 342 pixels | ||
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Pycnidia - magnified | 500 by 333 pixels | ||
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Pycnidia - magnified | 500 by 286 pixels | ||
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Pycnidia - magnified | 500 by 333 pixels | ||
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Conidia - highly magnified | 500 by 339 pixels | ||
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Pycnidial wall - highly magnified | 500 by 333 pixels | ||
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Pycnidium squash - conidia and conidiophores - magnified | 498 by 500 pixels | ||
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Pycnidium squash - immature - magnified | 500 by 475 pixels |
