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Asterina effusa Cooke & Massee 1887

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Asterina effusa Cooke & Massee in Cooke, Grevillea 15 101 (1887)
Asterina effusa Cooke & Massee 1887

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New Zealand
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Cooke & Massee
Cooke & Massee
1887
101
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Asterina effusa Cooke & Massee 1887
NZ
species
Asterina effusa
On leaves of Pittosporum eugenioides. New Zealand. (Kirk, 226.), holotype K(M)

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effusa

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Asterina effusa Cooke & Massee 1887

Mycelio effuso, atro, pelliculoso. Peritheciis sparsis vel congestis, hemisphaericis, minutis, nigris. Ascis obovatis, octosporis ; sporidiis subpyriformibus, uniseptatis, loculo superiori subgloboso, altero minori, fuscis (10 x 5-6 µ).
On leaves of Pittosporum eugenioides. New Zealand. (Kirk, 226.)

Asterina effusa Cooke & Massee 1887

Type: Sooty Moulds and Similar Fungi; Description: Subiculum effuse, forming a pellicle, black; on leaves. Mycelium composed of brown to dark brown, septate, straight or curved hyphae. Ascomata perithecial, scattered or crowded in groups, black, globose, minute. Asci obovate. Ascospores pyriform, 1-septate, 10 × 5–6 μm, brown.
Distribution: Not known.; 1st Record: Cooke (1887).
Significance: None.; Host(s): Pittosporum eugenioides.

Asterina effusa Cooke & Massee 1887

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Kew images.

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Asterina effusa Cooke & Massee 1887
Asterina effusa Cooke & Massee (1887)
Asterina effusa Cooke & Massee 1887
Asterina effusa Cooke & Massee (1887)
Asterina effusa Cooke & Massee 1887
Asterina effusa Cooke & Massee (1887)
Asterina effusa Cooke & Massee 1887
Asterina effusa Cooke & Massee (1887)
Asterina effusa Cooke & Massee 1887
Asterina effusa Cooke & Massee 1887
Asterina effusa Cooke & Massee 1887
Asterina effusa Cooke & Massee (1887)
Asterina effusa Cooke & Massee 1887
Asterina effusa Cooke & Massee (1887)

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taxonomic status
Specimen Kirk 226 K(M). Algae and sooty moulds present on same leaves, but presumably the fungus is the one associated with a thin, pale grey crust-like layer across extensive areas of the leaf, with scattered, small, black ascomata within these areas. Another collection identified as A. effusa (Colenso b885) appears to be a totally superficial layer of sooty mould fungi, or even just mud mixed with algae etc, and is on leaves of Blechnum. [PRJ, August 2010]
typification
On leaves of Pittosporum eugenioides. New Zealand. (Kirk, 226.), holotype K(M)

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