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Heptameria elegans

Heptameria elegans Rehm & Thüm., in Thümen, Inst. Rev. Cient. Litt., Coimbra 27: no. 292 (1879).

            Index Fungorum number: IF 228370; Facesoffungi number: FoF 12231, Fig. 1

Description:

Saprobic on host. Sexual morph: Unknown. Asexual morph: Conidiomata 500–800 μm diam., 300–450 μm high, pycnidial, dark colored, opening irregularly. Conidiomata wall not observed. Conidiophores 35−48 × 1.5−2.5 µm (x̄ = 45.2 × 2.0 µm, n = 20), reduced to conidiogenous cells. Conidiogenous cells phialidic, hyaline to olivaceous brown. Conidia 3.5−4.3 × 2.0−2.9 µm (x̄ = 3.7 × 2.3 µm, n = 20), simple, dark brown, aseptate, with thin and indistinctly ornamented outer wall.

Material examined: Portugal, on unidentified host, 1 January 1879, von Thümen (UME 30516).