Record Summary | diplococcium state on Clavulina coralloides |
Found as | Anamorph |
Date | 28 October 2013 |
Associated organism | Clavulina coralloides |
OS grid ref | OSGR: SU22 |
Lat/Lon | 50° 60’ N, 1° 40’ W |
Vice County | South Wilts, VC no: 8 |
Country | England |
Voucher | 28 Oct 2013[B] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
Notes:
Conidia: dark brown, smooth, mainly two-celled, with thick cross-wall between the cells, ellipsoid to fusiform, occasionally waisted.
Conidiophores: dark brown, septate with thick cross-walls like the conidia, branched.
The host seems unaffected and continues to sporulate freely.
At time of collection, there were a few perithecial initials on the stipe. These were allowed to develop over 8 days and photographed on 5th November.
Perithecia: blackish-brown, globose to acuminate, with short radiating brownish hairs with paler tips, loosely attached.
Asci: 8-spored, apical apparatus unchanged in Melzer’s Iodine.
Ascospores: grey. aseptate, ellipsoid-fusiform, 11-14/5µm.
The following literature was used to identify this find:
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