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Trichosphaerella tuberculata Samuels 1983

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Trichosphaerella tuberculata Samuels, New Zealand J. Bot. 21 158 (1983)
Trichosphaerella tuberculata Samuels 1983

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New Zealand
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Samuels
Samuels
1983
158
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Trichosphaerella tuberculata Samuels 1983
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Trichosphaerella tuberculata

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tuberculata

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Trichosphaerella tuberculata Samuels 1983

HOLOTYPE: New Zealand; Auckland, Waitakere Ranges, Huia, Parau track, on decorticated wood of Leptospermum sp. leg. G. J. Samuels

ANAMORPH: None known.

Ascomata densely gregarious, superficial, nonstromatic, attached to the substrate by hyphae, difficult to remove from the substrate; subglobose, 80-150 µm high ´ 100-125 µm wide, non-papillate, wall tuberculate, not collapsing when dry; black, shining, not changing colour in 3% KOH or 100% lactic acid.
Ascomatal wall 30-40 µm wide. Surface: cells nearly circular in outline, 4-5 µm diam., with brown pigment deposits on the surface. Longitudinal section: inner 12-15 µm comprising tightly compacted, flattened cells 5-8 µm long ´ 1.5-2.0 µm wide with wall 1 µm thick and pigmented; outer region variable in width, 12-25 µm at the thinnest areas the outer region directly joins the inner and comprises cells that lack definite outline, the widest regions represent tubercles seen on the wall surface, each tubercle consists of 2 regions, at the exterior the cells are small and lack definite outline, within the tubercle the cells are ± circular in outline, c. 5 µm diam. and appearing to be pulled apart through expansion of the tubercle; ostiolar area comprising c. 10 µm long x 2-3 µm wide hyphal elements arising from the inner region of the wall, ostiolar canal periphysate.
Asci cylindrical to narrowly clavate, (25-)26-30(37) x 4.5-6.0 µm, unitunicate, apex with an indistinct, inamyloid ring; 8-spored, ascospores irregularly arranged.
Paraphyses not seen.
Ascospores elliptical, equally 2-celled, disarticulating into 2 conical to subglobose part spores while still in asci; part ascospores 2.5-3.0 x 2.0-2.5 µm, smooth, hyaline, becoming red in Melzer's reagent.

KNOWN DISTRIBUTION: New Zealand
HABITAT: on decorticated wood
Perithecia carbonacea, subglobosa, tuberculata, nonpapillata, nigra. Asci cylindrici: vel anguste clavati, 26-30 x 4.5-6.0 µm, unitunicati, 8-spori; utrinque poro praediti; poro iodo non coerulescentes. Ascosporae ellipsoideae, 2-cellulares, jam in asco sese secentes; segmentis sporarum conicis vel subglobosis, 2.5-3.0 x 2.0-2.5 µm, in iodo rubescentibus; glabris; bi- vel multistichis. Paraphysis nulla. HOLOTYPUS: PDD 41946.
HOLOTYPE: New Zealand; Auckland, Waitakere Ranges, Huia, Parau track, on decorticated wood of Leptospermum sp. leg. G. J. Samuels

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Trichosphaerella tuberculata Samuels 1983
Trichosphaerella tuberculata Samuels (1983)
Trichosphaerella tuberculata Samuels 1983
Trichosphaerella tuberculata Samuels (1983)
Trichosphaerella tuberculata Samuels 1983
Trichosphaerella tuberculata Samuels (1983)
Trichosphaerella tuberculata Samuels 1983
Trichosphaerella tuberculata Samuels (1983)
Trichosphaerella tuberculata Samuels 1983
Trichosphaerella tuberculata Samuels (1983)

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Trichosphaerella tuberculata Samuels 1983
New Zealand
Auckland

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15 December 2003
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