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Acrogenospora sphaerocephala (Berk. & Broome) M.B. Ellis 1971

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Acrogenospora sphaerocephala (Berk. & Broome) M.B. Ellis 1971
Acrogenospora sphaerocephala (Berk. & Broome) M.B. Ellis 1971

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Indigenous, non-endemic
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New Zealand
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(Berk. & Broome) M.B. Ellis
Berk. & Broome
M.B. Ellis
1971
114
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Acrogenospora sphaerocephala

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Acrogenospora sphaerocephala (Berk. & Broome) M.B. Ellis 1971

On dead wood and bark, (1-3) Beilschmiedia tawa, Auckland Prov,, 22.111.1963, (1) Mangorewa Gorge, DAOM 96140; (2, 3) Mamaku State Forest, PDD 20675 (DAOM 96144), DAOM 109595; (4) Dacrydium cupressinum, Westland, Lower Poerua River, Harihari, 5.1V.1963, DAOM 109589; (5) Podocarpus spicatus, Canterbury Prov., Kaituna Valley, Banks Peninsula, 15.X.1963, DAOM 109381: (6-8) unidentified hosts, (6) Auckland Prov.. Hunua Gorge, Hunua, 12.11.1963, DAOM 109593; (7, 8) Canterbury Prov., Kaituna Valley, 15.X.1963, DAOM 93923, 10959 1.

Hyphae mostly immersed, branched, septate, pale brown to dark brown, 2-6um wide; hyphae around the base of conidiophores generally wider and up to 9um wide.

Conidiophores produced singly or in groups of up to 10, erect, straight or flexuous, brown to dark brown for much of their length and brown to pale brown above; they are translucent throughout and the transverse septa can be seen. Conidiophores are 100-730um long, 7.2-10.5um wide just above the base which may be swollen up to 13um wide; they taper to 3.6-5.4um wide at the apex which can bear up to 17 percurrent proliferations.

Conidia almost entirely subspherical with a scar 3.6-5.4um wide on a short denticle, occasionally very slightly obovoid; the outer wall is c. 0.6um thick, brown and translucent permitting the thick (c. 6mm) hyaline inner wall to he seen. Conidia measure 17-30 x 15.5-30um.

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Acrogenospora sphaerocephala (Berk. & Broome) M.B. Ellis 1971
Acrogenospora sphaerocephala (Berk. & Broome) M.B. Ellis (1971)
Acrogenospora sphaerocephala (Berk. & Broome) M.B. Ellis 1971
Acrogenospora sphaerocephala (Berk. & Broome) M.B. Ellis (1971)
Acrogenospora sphaerocephala (Berk. & Broome) M.B. Ellis 1971
Acrogenospora sphaerocephala (Berk. & Broome) M.B. Ellis (1971)
Acrogenospora sphaerocephala (Berk. & Broome) M.B. Ellis 1971
Acrogenospora sphaerocephala (Berk. & Broome) M.B. Ellis (1971)
Acrogenospora sphaerocephala (Berk. & Broome) M.B. Ellis 1971
Acrogenospora sphaerocephala (Berk. & Broome) M.B. Ellis 1971
Monotosporella sphaerocephala (Berk. & Broome) S. Hughes (1958)
Monotosporella sphaerocephala (Berk. & Broome) S. Hughes 1958
Acrogenospora sphaerocephala (Berk. & Broome) M.B. Ellis 1971

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Acrogenospora sphaerocephala (Berk. & Broome) M.B. Ellis 1971
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1cb17c53-36b9-11d5-9548-00d0592d548c
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10 December 1992
3 May 2001
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