REPRESENTATIVE CULTURES: PDDCC 6603, 6803.

COLONY MORPHOLOGY OA: Colonies 50-70 mm diam. after 7 days. Mycelium; cottony to stringy, white or olivaceous with a red tinge. Numerous pycnidia on agar surface, often with buff coloured conidial slime. Reverse; bright yellow or red. ME: Colonies 40-50 mm. Mycelium; cottony, grey, olivaceous, or reddish; concentric bands of pycnidia forming at edge of colony. Reverse; rust coloured. CHLAMYDOSPORES: None. CONIDIA: Variable in shape, often irregular, occasionally 1-septate. (4.5-)6-9(-12) x (2-)2.5-3.5(-4) µm. PYCNIDIA- Often with several ostioles, solitary or aggregated into groups of 5-10 with adjacent pycnidia having confluent walls.

OCCURRENCE: Plurivorous saprophyte or weak wound parasite, more commonly found on woody plants.