Daldinia bakeri C. G. Lloyd

TELEOMORPH | CULTURES AND ANAMORPH | SPECIMENS EXAMINED | NOTES

NOTES

This fungus greatly resembles D. fissa but differs from the latter primarily in having dilute honey (64) or isabelline (65) KOH-extractable pigments and in having placentiform stromata. Daldinia fissa usually produces purple pigments in KOH and has turbinate to clavate stromata. Our interpretation of D. bakeri is quite different from Child's (1932). Child (1932) reported the fungus as having a pithy to fibrous, persistent interior and considered it closely related to D. eschscholzii. However, the lighter concentric zones of the type material are much as those of D. fissa, which are whitish and gelatinous.

Martin (1969b) described a hyphomycete with conidiophores of the Sporothrix type sensu P. Martin as the anamorph for D. bakeri. However, his interpretation of D. bakeri seems to conform with that of Child (1932). We thus suspect that the hyphomycete that he described does not represent the anamorph of our D. bakeri.