Phoma fimeti Brunaud 1890 [1889]

Details

Name scientific

Phoma fimeti Brunaud, Bull. Soc. Bot. France 36 338 (1890 [1889])

Preferred name

Paraphoma fimeti (Brunaud) Gruyter, Aveskamp & Verkley 2010

Nomenclature

Original authors

Brunaud

Authors

Brunaud

Publication place

Brunaud, P. 1890: Champignons à ajouter à la flore mycologique des environs de Saintes (3e série). Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 36: 335-340.

Year published

1890

Year on publication

1889

Publication page

338

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Phoma fimeti Brunaud 1890 [1889]

Type locality

France

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Phoma fimeti

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Dothideomycetes

Order

Pleosporales

Family

Didymellaceae

Genus

Phoma

Species

fimeti

Associations

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Association type

Associated organism

Association source

has host

Trifolium repens L.

Johnston, P.R. (1981)

has host

Trifolium repens L.

Pennycook, S.R. (1989)

has host

Trifolium repens L.

Skipp, R.A.; Christensen, M.J. (1981)

has host

Trifolium repens L.

Skipp, R.A.; Christensen, M.J. (1982)

has host

Eucalyptus

Young, J.M.; Fletcher, M.J. (1988)

Descriptions

Johnston, P.R. 1981: Phoma on New Zealand grasses and pasture legumes. New Zealand Journal of Botany 19(2): 173-186.

Phoma fimeti Brunaud 1890 [1889]

Collections Examined

REPRESENTATIVE CULTURES: PDDCC 6622, 6623.

Description

COLONY MORPHOLOGY OA: Colonies 20-25 mm diam. after 7 days. Mycelium; cottony, fine, grey. Yellow pigment in the agar visible through the mycelium and diffusing into the medium. Scattered groups of dark pycnidia. Reverse; yellow. ME: Colonies 15-20 mm. Mycelium; cottony, grey with the yellow pigment diffusing into the medium. Reverse; dark ochreous yellow or green. CHLAMYDOSPORES: None. CONIDIA: Small, even in shape, blunt ends. (3-)4-5.5(-6.5) x 1.5-2(-3) µm. PYCNIDIA: Dark coloured, often in groups of about 10 with confluent walls.

Habitat

OCCURRENCE: Usually saprophytic, isolated from soil or dead plant material. In the pathogenicity tests described below one isolate caused a root rot in Trifolium repens L. seedlings.