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Diploceras leptospermi (R.G. Bagn. & Sheridan) Nag Raj 1993

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Diploceras leptospermi (R.G. Bagn. & Sheridan) Nag Raj 1993

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Nag Raj
R.G. Bagn. & Sheridan
(R.G. Bagn. & Sheridan) Nag Raj
1993
291
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NZ holotype
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Diploceras leptospermi

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leptospermi

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Diploceras leptospermi (R.G. Bagn. & Sheridan) Nag Raj 1993

Type: Foliicolous Fungi; Description: Conidiomata stromatic, acervular, scattered to gregarious, subepidermal becoming partly erumpent, oval to rounded, dark brown to black, 0.1–0.3 mm wide, opening by an irregular rupture of the host tissue; on both sides of leaves. Conidia needle-shaped, 4-septate, 44–73 × 3–4 μm, apical and basal cells subhyaline in the basal part, hyaline above, intermediate cells subhyaline; apical cell abruptly attenuated at the apex into a single, tubular appendage, 2–9 μm long; basal cell with an excentric, tubular, flexuous appendage, 5–11 μm long.
Distribution: Auckland, Bay of Plenty, Westland.; 1st Record: Bagnall & Sheridan (1972: as Seimatosporium leptospermi).
Significance: None.; Host(s): Leptospermum scoparium.

Diploceras leptospermi (R.G. Bagn. & Sheridan) Nag Raj 1993

Specimen examined: DAOM 215271 [Paratype], Wellington, New Zealand, X1.1965, R.W. Balham.

Foliicolous. Conidiomata stromatic, acervular, amphigenous, scattered to gregarious, subepidermal in origin, innate-erumpent, oval to rounded or irregular in outline, 170-300 µm wide, 80-130 µm deep, unilocular, glabrous, dark brown to black, dehiscing by an irregular rupture of the overlying host tissue, often with the conidia extruded in long dark brown cirrhi; basal stroma 10-20 µm thick, of textura angularis, cells pale brown, smooth. Conidiophores arising from the upper cells of the basal stroma, reduced to Condiogenous cells, rarely 1-septate and branched, almost colourless, invested in mucus. Conidiogenous cells lageniform to subcylindrical, almost colourless, smooth, 7-13 X 2-3 [mean = 9.2 X 2.5] µm, with up to 5 annellations. Conidia acerose, mostly 4-septate, occasionally 3- to 5-septate, periclinal wall in the median part thicker than the transverse septa, wall smooth and slightly constricted at the septa, 44-73 X 3-4 [mean = 62 X 3.5] µm, bearing appendages; basal cell obconic with a truncate base bearing minute marginal frills and a dark attachment scar, colourless in the basal part, almost colourless above, 7-9.5 [mean = 8] µm long; 3 (or 2, or 4) median cells cylindrical, almost colourless, together (20-)24-47 [mean = 35] µm long (second cell from base 9-15 [mean = 13.2] µm, central cell 7-14 [mean = 11.4] µm, fourth cell from base 8-16 [mean = 13] µm long); apical cell conic, almost colourless in the basal part, colourless above, 12-28 [mean = 19] µm long (including appendage), abruptly attenuated at the apex into a single, unbranched, tubular appendage 2-9 µm long; basal appendage tubular, single, unbranched, attenuated, flexuous, excentric, 5-11 [mean = 8] µm long; mean conidium length/width ratio = 17.5:1.

Presumed holomorph: Discostromopsis leptospermi Swart, Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. 73: 218, 1979. Bagnall & Sheridan (1972) and Swart (1979) reported the fungus on L. juniperinum from Australia.

Known distribution: New Zealand.
Habitat: On dead leaves of Leptospermum scoparium.

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Diploceras leptospermi (R.G. Bagn. & Sheridan) Nag Raj 1993
Diploceras leptospermi (R.G. Bagn. & Sheridan) Nag Raj (1993)
Diploceras leptospermi (R.G. Bagn. & Sheridan) Nag Raj 1993
Diploceras leptospermi (R.G. Bagn. & Sheridan) Nag Raj (1993)
Diploceras leptospermi (R.G. Bagn. & Sheridan) Nag Raj 1993
Diploceras leptospermi (R.G. Bagn. & Sheridan) Nag Raj (1993)
Diploceras leptospermi (R.G. Bagn. & Sheridan) Nag Raj 1993
Diploceras leptospermi (R.G. Bagn. & Sheridan) Nag Raj (1993)

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Diploceras leptospermi (R.G. Bagn. & Sheridan) Nag Raj 1993
New Zealand
Auckland
Diploceras leptospermi (R.G. Bagn. & Sheridan) Nag Raj 1993
New Zealand
Bay of Plenty
Diploceras leptospermi (R.G. Bagn. & Sheridan) Nag Raj 1993
New Zealand
Rangitikei
Diploceras leptospermi (R.G. Bagn. & Sheridan) Nag Raj 1993
New Zealand
Taranaki
Diploceras leptospermi (R.G. Bagn. & Sheridan) Nag Raj 1993
New Zealand
Westland

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24 May 1994
17 January 2025
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