Didymascella thujina (E.J. Durand) Maire 1927

Details

Name scientific

Didymascella thujina (E.J. Durand) Maire, Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Afrique N. 18 120 (1927)

Preferred name

Didymascella thujina (E.J. Durand) Maire 1927

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Exotic

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Combination authors

Maire

Original authors

E.J. Durand

Authors

(E.J. Durand) Maire

Publication place

Maire, R. 1927: Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord 18

Year published

1927

Publication page

120

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Keithia thujina E.J. Durand 1913

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Didymascella thujina

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Leotiomycetes

Order

Helotiales

Family

Cenangiaceae

Genus

Didymascella

Species

thujina

Synonyms

Keithia thujina E.J. Durand 1913

Associations

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Association type

Associated organism

Association source

has host

Thuja plicata D.Don

Birch, T.T.C. (1937)

has host

Thuja plicata D.Don

Dingley, J.M. (1969)

has host

Thuja plicata D.Don

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

has host

Thuja plicata D.Don

Gilmour, J.W. (1966)

has host

Thuja plicata D.Don

Knowles, F.B.; Miller, J.B. (1997)

has host

Thuja plicata D.Don

Pennycook, S.R. (1989)

has host

Thuja occidentalis L.

PDD (1 records from [Not available].)

has host

Thuja plicata D.Don

PDD (2 records from [Not available].)

Descriptions

Dingley, J.M. 1969: Records of plant diseases in New Zealand. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Bulletin. 192.

Didymascella thujina (E.J. Durand) Maire 1927

Notes

This fungus is known in New Zealand only from a single record. Unfortunately no herbarium material was filed.

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.

Didymascella thujina (E.J. Durand) Maire 1927

Description

Type: Foliicolous Fungi; Description: Ascomata scattered, subepidermal, exposed by the shedding of a disc of the covering epidermis, roughly circular, olive brown, up to 1 mm in diameter; chiefly on the upper surfaces of leaves, old ascomata may fall out entirely, leaving an empty pit in the leaf. Asci clavate, 2-spored, 100 × 20 μm. Ascospores elliptical, 1-septate, with the septum near the upper end, 22–25 × 15–16 μm, brown with finely pitted walls.

Distribution

Distribution: Taupo.; 1st Record: Birch (1937: as Keithia thujina).

Notes

Pathogenicity

Significance: None. Recorded only once.; Host(s): Thuja plicata.