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Allelochaeta obtusa (H.J. Swart & M.A. Will.) Crous 2018

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Allelochaeta obtusa (H.J. Swart & M.A. Will.) Crous in Crous et al., FUSE 2 296 (2018)
Allelochaeta obtusa (H.J. Swart & M.A. Will.) Crous 2018

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Crous
H.J. Swart & M.A. Will.
(H.J. Swart & M.A. Will.) Crous
2018
296
ICN
species
Allelochaeta obtusa

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Type: Foliicolous Fungi; Description: Conidiomata stromatic, acervular, scattered to gregarious, sub-epidermal, angular to rounded, occasionally confluent, up to 0.25 mm in diameter; on straw-coloured to pale brown spots which are individually up to 7 mm in diameter but often confluent, on both sides of leaves. Conidia ellipsoid fusiform, straight or slightly curved, 3-septate, 45–80 × 3–6 μm, hyaline; apical cell slightly attenuated to a blunt tip, longer than the other cells; median two cells cylindrical; basal cell with a narrow, truncate base and a 3–5 μm long, excentric appendage.
Distribution: Auckland, Coromandel, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Taupo, Wellington, Nelson, Westland, Dunedin.; 1st Record: Dick (1990).
Significance: Associated with necrotic leaf spots. Pathogenicity not known.; Host(s): Eucalyptus delegatensis, E. fraxinoides, E. regnans.

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Allelochaeta obtusa (H.J. Swart & M.A. Will.) Crous 2018
Allelochaeta obtusa (H.J. Swart & M.A. Will.) Crous 2018
Allelochaeta obtusa (H.J. Swart & M.A. Will.) Crous 2018
Seimatosporium obtusum (H.J. Swart & M.A. Will.) Barber & Crous
Allelochaeta obtusa (H.J. Swart & M.A. Will.) Crous 2018
Vermisporium obtusum H.J. Swart & M.An. Will. (1983)
Vermisporium obtusum H.J. Swart & M.An. Will. (1983)
Vermisporium obtusum H.J. Swart & M.A. Will. 1983
Allelochaeta obtusa (H.J. Swart & M.A. Will.) Crous 2018
Vermisporium obtusum H.J. Swart & M.An. Will. (1983)

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11 February 2019
30 October 2023
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