Record Summary | pycnidia on dead, fallen scales of Monkey Puzzle |
Found as | Anamorph |
Date | 25 January 2009 |
Associated organism | Araucaria araucana |
OS grid ref | OSGR: SU77 |
Lat/Lon | 51° 30’ N, 0° 60’ W |
Vice County | Berks, VC no: 22 |
Country | England |
Voucher | 25 Jan 2009[C] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
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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