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Sphaeria humilis Berk.

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Sphaeria humilis Berk.
Sphaeria humilis Berk.

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Indigenous
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New Zealand
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Berk.
Berk.
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Sphaeria humilis

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humilis

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Sphaeria humilis Berk.

Annotation on the label clearly shows the name Sphaeria humilis Berk. (an ined. herb name from Kew fungarium) and there is a note "Berkeley thinks it is an imperfect state of Sphaeria herbarum Fl. Ant. P.171" The collection is from Chrysobactron rolfsii, Auckland and Campbell Islands. The attached illustration shows 1-3 septate ascospores. Filed in K under Pleospora herbarum. There are other collections from Campbell and Auckland Islands on the same sheet, with typical Pleospora ascospores illustrated, and referred to Sphaeria herbarum. Berkeley notes in Flora Antarctica page 171 "On the same stalks [as occur a Pleospora and a Hendersonia], individuals having the same external characters occur, in which the sporidia are uniseptate. This form I at first believed to be a distinct species, but am now satisfied that it is an imperfect state of S. herbarum." [as asci are illsustrated for this species, 'imperfect' is being used in the sense of atypical]

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Sphaeria humilis Berk.
Sphaeria humilis Berk.

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9 March 2012
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