PDD 80170 – Myrothecium Tode
Data provider:
New Zealand Fungarium - Te Kohinga Hekaheka o Aotearoa
Barcode:
PDD 80170
Specimen type:
Packet
Loan status:
Active
Database record added:
01 April 2010
Database record updated:
24 February 2023
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Myrothecium
Determiner:
J.A. Cooper
Identification date:
2012-04-01 (Verbatim: 1/4/2012)
Preferred name:
Myrothecium Tode
Division:
Ascomycota
Class:
Sordariomycetes
Order:
Hypocreales
Family:
Stachybotriaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Associations:
has host Juncus pallidus
Substrate:
leaf, dead
Other identifications
Identification
Determined name:
Phialographium
Determiner:
J.A. Cooper
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Leptographium Lagerb. & Melin
Determination uncertain:
yes
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Other components
Active identification
Determined name:
Juncus pallidus
Determiner:
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Juncus pallidus R.Br.
Division:
Tracheophyta
Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Poales
Family:
Juncaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Present:
no
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Unknown
Standard locality
Location:
Greenpark Sands
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.7338 172.52
Verbatim locality:
Greenpark Sands
Verbatim collector:
J.A. Cooper
Standardised collector:
J. A. Cooper
Collectors reference no.:
JAC8246
Verbatim date:
2001/10/12
Start date:
2001-10-12
New Zealand Area Codes:
Mid Canterbury
Country:
New Zealand
Native lands:
Ngāi Tahu
Georeferences:
New Zealand Map Grid:
2471300E 5719190N (WGS84 -43.733742 172.519492)
Habitat:
Coastal grassland
Keywords:
Coastal grassland
Specimen notes
Public Note:
This has green, smooth conidia and looks like a synnematous Aspergillus.
Sp. nov.?
Synnema 400-500 µm tall. Stipe 25 µm wide, dark brown, expanded at base to 100 µm wide, stipe cells septate, 1.5-2µm broad, prosenchymatous, smooth, dark brown, thick-walled, becoming olivaceous towards the apex. Head expanded, semi-globose to 200 µm wide, surrounded by a fringe of hairs, pale grey-olivaceous, 3 µm diam, slightly verrucose. Conidiogenous cells phialidic, pale brown, possibly in metuloid heads. Conidia globose, smooth, olivaceous, 1.5-2 µm.
Assigned reference numbers
JA Cooper Fungarium:
JAC8246
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