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Table 1 Characteristics of Acrospermum gaubae

From: Fungi Silvicolae Novazelandiae: 10

Character

Petrak ([1955])

NZFRI-M 5514

Perithecia

Hypophyllous, solitary, reddish brown, lageniform, broadly attached to leaf hairs, ostiolate, 100-300 μm high, 130–170 μm broad at the base. Wall 25-35 μm wide, parenchymatous, outer layer of reddish cells, inner layer subhyaline.

Hypophyllous, solitary, reddish brown, doliiform to cylindric, seated among leaf hairs, ostiolate, 320–450 μm high, 170–240 μm broad at base. Wall 20–35 μm wide, outer layer of angular cells with reddish brown walls, inner layer of hyaline, elongated cells.

Asci

Elongate cylindric, rounded at the top, 4-spored, 110–140 × 6–7 μm.

Elongate clavate, without apical discharge mechanism, 4-8-spored, 150–220 × 6–7 μm.

Ascospores

Filiform, multiseptate, disarticulating.

Filiform, multiseptate, sometimes disarticulating, 115–160 × 1–2 μm.

Host

Banksia ericifolia

Banksia ericifolia × spinulosa