Biscogniauxia baileyi (Berk. & Broome ex Cooke) Kuntze

TELEOMORPH | CULTURES AND ANAMORPH | SPECIMENS EXAMINED | NOTES

NOTES

This species is known only from Australia. The gross morphology is highly similar to that of B. marginata from which it differs in having a straight rather than sigmoid germ slit. Biscogniauxia dennisii is a closely related species, but it differs in having larger perithecia and in having larger ascospores. We were unable to determine the composition and configuration of the stromatal tissue that is located immediately beneath the surface and between perithecia because the specimens that we have examined are overmature and depauperate. Biscogniauxia baileyi might represent the Southern Hemisphere equivalent of B. marginata. The latter is fairly specific for rosaceous hosts; host relationships of the former are unknown.