Calonectria ilicicola Boedijn & Reitsma, (a pyrenomycete)


19 Nov 2006 at OSGR: SU56 in Berks, England

Record Summaryon fallen, dead, black, wet, rotting, Holly leaves
Found asFruitbody
Date19 November 2006
Associated organismIlex aquifolium
OS grid refOSGR: SU56
Lat/Lon51° 20’ N, 1° 10’ W
Vice CountyBerks, VC no: 22
CountryEngland
Voucher19 Nov 2006[A]
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Notes:

Four leaves with colonies on underside, but one leaf with colony on upper side.

Perithecia: rough-walled, globular, golden-yellow, with brown-ringed ostiole when mature, superficial, in troops, each seated on a small red-brown hyphal mat, mostly hypophyllous.

Ascospores: fusiform, 3-septate, cells unswollen, 64/7µm, and forming a single fascicle in ascus (multiseriate).

Anamorph not seen.

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