Kretzschmaria zonata (Lév.) P. Martin

TELEOMORPH | CULTURES AND ANAMORPH | SPECIMENS EXAMINED | NOTES

TELEOMORPH

Kretzschmaria zonata (Lév.) P. Martin, J. S. African Bot. 42: 75. 1976.

º Sphaeria zonata Lév., Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot., sér. III, 3: 48. 1845.

º Ustulina zonata (Lév.) Sacc., Syll. Fung. I, p. 352. 1882.

= ? Ustulina vulgaris Tul. & C. Tul. f. madagascariensis Henn. apud Voeltzkow, Reise in Ost-Afrika 1903-1905, III, Heft 1, p. 30. 1908.

º Hypoxylon deustum (Hoffm.: Fr.) Grev. f. madagascariensis (Henn.) Hendrickx, Publ. Inst. Natl. Étude Agron. Congo Belge, sér. Sci., 35: 7. 1948.

Stromata, perithecia, ostioles, and asci much as in K. deusta.

Ascospores dark brown to blackish brown, unicellular, fusoid to ellipsoid, inequilateral, with acute ends often pinched and blackened, smooth, 21-34 x 8.5-12 mm, with straight germ slit spore-length or nearly so.