Phomopsis araucariae Grove, (a coelomycete)


25 Jan 2009 at OSGR: SU77 in Berks, England

Record Summarypycnidia on dead, fallen scales of Monkey Puzzle
Found asAnamorph
Date25 January 2009
Associated organismAraucaria araucana
OS grid refOSGR: SU77
Lat/Lon51° 30’ N, 0° 60’ W
Vice CountyBerks, VC no: 22
CountryEngland
Voucher25 Jan 2009[C]
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Notes:

Pycnidia: mainly adaxial; large (0.7mm) and sparse to small and crowded; black; irregular and rough, often velvety; of varied and irregular shapes, lumpy - low linear mounds to erect beaked or even forked; often sterile; immersed then erumpent through slits and apparently distorted as they push through the hard cuticle.

B-conidia: hyaline, filiform, curved, often more so at one end, aseptate, c. 17-25/1µm.

C-conidia: hyaline, sparse.

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