Asterinella intensa (Cooke & Massee) Theiss. 1912

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Name scientific

Asterinella intensa (Cooke & Massee) Theiss., Brotéria 10 120 (1912)

Preferred name

Asterinella intensa (Cooke & Massee) Theiss. 1912

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Anon

Nomenclature

Authors

(Cooke & Massee) Theiss.

Original authors

Cooke & Massee

Combination authors

Theiss.

Publication place

Theissen, F. 1912: Brotéria 10

Year published

1912

Publication page

120

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Asterina intensa Cooke & Massee 1887

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Asterinella intensa

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Dothideomycetes

Order

Asterinales

Family

Asterinaceae

Genus

Asterinella

Species

intensa

Synonyms

Asterina intensa Cooke & Massee 1887

Associations

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Association type

Associated organism

Association source

has host

Pisonia brunoniana Endl.

Cooke, M.C. (1887)

has host

Pisonia brunoniana Endl.

Gadgil, P.D. (in association with Dick, M.A.; Hood, I.A.; Pennycook, S.R.) (2005)

has host

Pisonia brunoniana Endl.

Cooke, M.C. (1887)

has host

Pisonia brunoniana Endl.

Pennycook, S.R. (1989)

has host

Pisonia brunoniana Endl.

Sydow, H. (1924)

has host

Heimerliodendron brunonianum (Endl.) Skottsb. 1942

PDD (2 records from New Zealand.)

has host

Pisonia brunoniana Endl.

PDD (5 records from New Zealand.)

Descriptions

Cooke, M.C. 1887: Some Australian fungi. Grevillea 15(76): 97-101.

Asterina intensa Cooke & Massee 1887

Latin

Amphigena. Maculis atris, orbicularibus. Peritheciis applanatis, minutis, densissime congestis (1/8 mm. diam.), margine fimbriato. Ascis ovatis, octosporis. Sporidiis ellipticis, obtusis, uniseptatis, fuscis (15 x 8 µ ).

Typification

On leaves of Pisonia. New Zealand. (Kirk, 219.)

Gadgil, P.D. (in association with Dick, M.A.; Hood, I.A.; Pennycook, S.R.) 2005: Fungi on trees and shrubs in New Zealand. Fungi of New Zealand. 4. Fungal Diversity Press.

Asterinella intensa (Cooke & Massee) Theiss. 1912

Description

Type: Sooty Moulds and Similar Fungi; Description: Subiculum effuse, more or less circular, black; on leaves. Mycelium composed of brown to dark brown, septate, straight or curved hyphae. Ascomata perithecial, densely crowded, black, depressed globose, 0.15 mm in diameter. Asci ovate. Ascospores elliptical, 1-septate, 15 × 8 μm, brown.

Distribution

Distribution: Not known.; 1st Record: Cooke (1887: as Asterina intensa).

Notes

Pathogenicity

Significance: None.; Host(s): Pisonia brunoniana.

Johnston, P.R. 2010: Kew Type Specimens - images and notes from P.R. Johnston, 2010.

Asterina intensa Cooke & Massee 1887

Notes

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Stromata crust-like, no obvious mycelium on surface of leaf, stroma probably covered with numerous ascomata, but forming a more or less continuous sheet, so individual fruiting bodies not obvious.