Record Summary | superficial, on dead pine cone scale under pines |
Found as | Anamorph |
Date | 16 December 2006 |
Associated organism | Pinus sylvestris |
OS grid ref | OSGR: SU56 |
Lat/Lon | 51° 20’ N, 1° 10’ W |
Vice County | Berks, VC no: 22 |
Country | England |
Voucher | 16 Dec 2006[B] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
Notes:
Conidiomata: superficial, clustered, spherical, c. 0.3mm diam, saturated, white to pale (dark) grey when moist, drying pale greyish-yellow, often with apical pore or papilla.
Conidia: abundant, hyaline, acicular, 45-55/1µm, 3-septate, unstained in Melzer’s Iodine, stainning in cotton blue.
Agrees closely with Fujimyces oödes, except it is greyish instead of brown. Nearby brown blobs turned out to be insect frass.
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