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Botryobambusa fusicoccum

Botryobambusa fusicoccum Phook., Jian K. Liu & K.D. Hyde, in Liu et al., Fungal Diversity 57(1): 166 (2012).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 801314; Facesoffungi number: FoF 00031 Fig. 1

Description: see Liu et al. (2012); Phillips et al. (2013).

Material considered: see Liu et al. (2012); Phillips et al. (2013).

Fig. 1 Botryobambusa fusicoccum (MFLU 11-0179, holotype). a Ascostromata on host substrate. b Section through multiloculate ascostromata. c Peridium. d–f Asci. g–i Ascospores. j Conidiomata on host tissue. k Section through multiloculate conidiomata. l Section through peridium. m, n Conidiogenous cells. o–q Conidia. Scale bars: a = 500 μm, b, k = 200 μm, c, l = 20 μm, d, e, f, m = 50 μm, g–i = 5 μm, n–q = 10 μm.

Importance and distribution

Botryobambusa comprises two species. Botryobambusa apiculiformispora is reported from twig of Calamus andamanicus (Arecaceae) in Asia (India-Andaman Island) while B. fusicoccum is reported from Bambusa (Poaceae) in Asia (Thailand).

 

References

Liu JK, Phookamsak R, Doilom M, Wikee S et al. 2012 – Towards a natural classification of Botryosphaeriales. Fungal Diversity 57, 149–210.

Phillips AJ, Alves A, Abdollahzadeh J, Slippers B, Wingfield MJ, Groenewald JZ, Crous PW. 2013 – The Botryosphaeriaceae: genera and species known from culture. Studies in Mycology 76, 51–167. doi: 10.3114/sim0021. 

 

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