BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Epicoccum nigrum Link, 1815 (a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus)
| Date: | 13 March 2007 |
| Location: | Surrey, England |
| Voucher: | 13/03/2007[C] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
| State: | Imperfect stage |
| Record Summary: | on dead, bleached patches on leaves, and on fallen leaves of Arundinaria pygmaea var. disticha (a bamboo) |
| Associated organism: | on dead patch leaf of Arundinaria pygmaea var. disticha |
| Identification Notes: | Growing on dead fallen leaves and dead bleached patches on fading leaves. Sporodochia: pulvinate, entirely orange when young, becoming obscured by dark conidia but showing bright orange in centre, c. 0.1mm diam. Conidia: dark greyish brown, rough, obscurely muriform (internal walls ≤1µm thick but hyaline), ovoid, broad end 10-18µm diam. |
Images etc
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Conidia - optical section - highly magnified | 500 by 333 pixels | ||
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Conidia - optical section - highly magnified | 500 by 353 pixels | ||
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Conidia - surface view - highly magnified | 500 by 310 pixels | ||
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Conidia - surface view - highly magnified | 500 by 447 pixels | ||
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Sporodochium - squash prep - magnified | 500 by 435 pixels | ||
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Sporodochium - squash prep - magnified | 500 by 410 pixels | ||
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Sporodochium - squash prep - magnified | 500 by 497 pixels | ||
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Sporodochium - young - squash prep - magnified | 500 by 464 pixels | ||
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Sporodochium - young - squash prep - tapped out - magnified | 500 by 353 pixels | ||
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Sporodochium - young - squash prep - tapped out - magnified | 500 by 329 pixels |
