Freshwater Ascomycetes - Species Monograph
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| Genus |
Species |
Author |
| Ascotaiwania |
wulai |
H. S. Chang & S.-Y. Hsieh |
| Class |
Order |
Family |
| Sordariomycetes |
Xylariales |
Amphisphaeriaceae |
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| Synonymy: |
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Description
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| Habit: |
Saprobic, partly to fully immersed in submerged wood. |
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| Ascomata: |
Ascomata 480-744 x 297-518 µm, solitary to aggregated, partly to fully immersed in the wood, oblique to horizontal (swan-like), dark brown to black, globose to subglobose. |
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| Peridium: |
Peridium composed of 3-5 layers of cells of textura angularis, with hairy, septate, unbranched, brown, hyphae on the wall and neck. |
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| Beak: |
Not present. |
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| Hamathecium: |
Paraphyses filiform, septate, hyaline, simple, rarely branched and deliquescing early. |
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| Ascus: |
Asci 274-308 x 17-21 µm, cylindrical, 8-spored, pedicellate, unitunicate, with a prominent non-amyloid apical ring (annulus), 7.5-9.7 x 11.4-13 µm. |
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| Ascospore: |
Ascospores 53-62 x 14-16 µm, uniseriate, fusoid, transversely 7-septate, not constricted, smooth-walled, central cells brown and large, with smaller hyaline to sub-hyaline end cells.. |
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| Sheath: |
Not present. |
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| Appendage: |
Not present. |
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| Culture: |
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| Anamorph: |
Unknown. |
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Other info
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| Type & Location: |
HTP0421-W2 on decaying twigs collected from a stream at Hsutoupu. Deposited at the Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica. |
| Other Specimens: |
WL1227-15-1, 27 Dec. 1990, at Wulai, Taipei. WL0313-N-1, 13 Mar. 1992, at Wulai, Taipei. |
| Substratum: |
submerged twigs |
| Habitat: |
lotic (stream) |
| Distribution: |
Taiwan |
| Pertinent Literature: |
Mycological Research 102 (6): 709-718. |
| Comments: |
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