Daldinia childiae J. D. Rogers & Y.-M. Ju

TELEOMORPH | CULTURES AND ANAMORPH | SPECIMENS EXAMINED | NOTES

CULTURES AND ANAMORPH

Colonies on 2% Difco Oatmeal Agar at ca. 20°C and under 12 h fluorescent light reaching the edge of 9 cm Petri dish in 1-1.5 wk, at first whitish, felty, azonate, with diffuse margins, becoming honey (64), sometimes with mouse gray (118) concentric zones, with fulvous (43) exudates; reverse citrine (13) to dull green (70).

Sporulating regions scattered over entire surface of colony but with more abundant sporulation on tufts of hyphae at edge of colony, buff (45) to honey (64).

Conidiogenous structure with Nodulisporium-like branching pattern as defined in Ju and Rogers (1996).

Conidiophores mononematous, di- or trichotomously branched, sometimes with additional branches arising from the first level of conidiogenous regions, hyaline to yellowish, finely roughened, 3-3.5 mm diam, with two to three conidiogenous cells arising from each terminus.

Conidiogenous cells cylindrical, hyaline, finely roughened, 10-25 x 3-4 mm. Conidia produced holoblastically in sympodial sequence.

Conidia hyaline, smooth to finely roughened, ellipsoid, with flattened base, 7-9 (-10.5) x 4.5-5.5 mm.