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Sphaerographium tenuirostrum Verkley 2001

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Sphaerographium tenuirostrum Verkley, Mycologia 93 205 (2001)
Sphaerographium tenuirostrum Verkley 2001

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Verkley
Verkley
2001
205
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Sphaerographium tenuirostrum Verkley 2001
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Sphaerographium tenuirostrum

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tenuirostrum

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Sphaerographium tenuirostrum Verkley 2001

As mentioned above, rDNA sequence data have revealed that the taxa most closely related to Chaetomella and Pilidium are Sphaerographium enuirostrum and Synchaetomella lunatospora. Sphaerographium tenuirostrum is a pycnidial fungus recently described from decaying petals of Camellia sasanqua in New Zealand (VERKLEY 2001). Although the pycnidia of S. tenuirostrum are rostrate and have a circular opening rather than a raphe, the walls are thickened up to 70 µm similar to those of Chaetomella and Pilidium. Like Pilidium, species of Sphaerographium lack any setae or hairs. Sphaerographium is also similar to Chaetomella and Pilidium in having filiform, branched conidiophores that line the base and sides of the pycnidium and acropleurogenous phialidic conidiogenous cells. The conidia of Sphaerographium are falcate, hyaline, one-septate in S. tenuirostrum, one to four septate in the type species, S. squarrosum, and non-septate in S. petiolicola (VERKLEY 2002). Sphaerographium tenuirostrum is the only species in that genus for which a living culture and sequence data exist. No teleomorph is known for any of the three accepted species of Sphaerographium. However, based on their similarity to Corniculariella Karst., Foveostroma DiCosmo and Topospora Fr., VERKLEY (2002) speculated that these eustromatic coelomycetes would have teleomorphs in the inoperculate discomycetes especially the families Dermateaceae and Helotiaceae.

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Sphaerographium tenuirostrum Verkley 2001
Sphaerographium tenuirostrum Verkley (2001)
Sphaerographium tenuirostrum Verkley 2001
Sphaerographium tenuirostrum Verkley (2001)
Sphaerographium tenuirostrum Verkley 2001
Sphaerographium tenuirostrum Verkley (2001)
Sphaerographium tenuirostrum Verkley 2001
Sphaerographium tenuirostrum Verkley (2001)

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14 May 2001
15 November 2002
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