BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Calcarisporium arbuscula Preuss, 1857 (an anamorphic fungus)
| Date: | 7 October 2007 |
| Location: | North Wiltshire, England |
| Voucher: | 07/10/2007[C] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
| State: | Imperfect stage |
| Record Summary: | Anamorph on Hypoxylon fragiforme fruitbodies on fallen Beech twig |
| Associated organism: | on live ascocarp of Hypoxylon fragiforme |
| Identification Notes: | Very pale buff tufts of conidiophores, densely and fairly evenly dispersed over the surface of the acocarp. Sometimes, but not always, emerging through the ostioles. Conidiophores: hyaline, mononematous, septate, with verticillate branches just below the septum, although many hyphae only have single side-branches. Conidia on radiating pegs at branch tips. Conidia: hyaline, narrowly ellipsoid with basal apiculus, 4.5-6.5/2.5-3µm. |
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Infected Hypoxylon fragiforme fruitbodies - highly enlarged | 500 by 306 pixels | ||
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Infection - magnified | 500 by 367 pixels | ||
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Conidia - magnified | 35 Kb | 466 by 273 pixels | |
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Conidia - highly magnified | 27 Kb | 416 by 265 pixels | |
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Conidiophore tips - note conidial pegs - highly magnified | 357 by 500 pixels | ||
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Conidiophore tips - note conidial pegs - highly magnified | 422 by 500 pixels | ||
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Conidiophores - magnified (note verticellate branching) | 500 by 333 pixels | ||
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Conidiophores - magnified (note verticellate branching) | 500 by 390 pixels | ||
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Conidiophores - magnified (note verticellate branching) | 500 by 333 pixels | ||
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Conidiophores - magnified | 500 by 406 pixels | ||
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Conidiophores - magnified | 500 by 388 pixels |
