PDD 96466 – Wentiomyces melioloides (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) E. Müll.
Data provider:
New Zealand Fungarium - Te Kohinga Hekaheka o Aotearoa
Barcode:
PDD 96466
Specimen type:
Packet
Loan status:
Active
Database record added:
06 August 2012
Database record updated:
24 February 2023
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Wentiomyces melioloides
Determiner:
J.A. Cooper
Identification date:
2012-04-04 (Verbatim: 2012/04/04)
Preferred name:
Wentiomyces melioloides (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) E. Müll.
Division:
Ascomycota
Class:
Dothideomycetes
Identification type:
Determination
Associations:
has host Brachyscome radicata
Substrate:
live leaf
Other components
Active identification
Determined name:
Brachyscome radicata
Determiner:
J.A. Cooper
Identification date:
2012-04-03 (Verbatim: 03/04/2012)
Preferred name:
Brachyscome radicata Hook.f. 1852
Division:
Tracheophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Asterales
Family:
Compositae
Identification type:
Determination
Note:
checked against CHR material
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Verbatim locality:
Klondyke Corner, Greyney's Shelter
Verbatim collector:
J.A. Cooper
Standardised collector:
J. A. Cooper
Collectors reference no.:
JAC12369
Verbatim date:
2012/04/03
Start date:
2012-04-03
New Zealand Area Codes:
North Canterbury
Country:
New Zealand
Native lands:
Ngāi Tahu
Georeferences:
New Zealand Map Grid:
2394514E 5802231N (WGS84 -42.97846 171.583949)
Habitat:
Beech-broadleaved forest
Specimen notes
Public Note:
Originally thought fungus was Antennariella but I see W. melioloides on Lagenifera. Clusters of perithecia both upper and lower surface of leaves. Aggregations to 3mm. Perithecia superfical, with papilla and ostiole, with hairs, collapsing cupulate, to 125um diameter with ostiole to 15um, setose with brown hairs to 150um (but not like images, say of W. dryadis). Spores 1 septate, media, constricted at septum, long remaining hyaline but ultimately pale brown and minutely rough. Perithecia sitting on an interwoven brown hyphal mat, no hyphopodia or setae?, with both large mature and smaller sterile spherical bodies. Some sooty mould-like Capnodendron conidia around but not connected . Not mixed. Spores length=9.7-11.9µm (µ=10.9, σ=0.81), width=3.2-4.6µm (µ=3.7, σ=0.51), Q=2.4-3.7µm (µ=3.01, σ=0.44), n=10. see also Raciborskiomyces, Neocoleroa, Lasiostemma, Dimeriella, Epipolaeum, eudimeriolum, eumela, episphaerella. It does seem unlikley that Wentiomyces species recorded on lichens are similar to the biotrophic leaf species, and unlikley that W. m. is the same species on so many hosts. In this case the host is definitely B. radicata - checked against authentic CHR material.
J.A. Cooper
J.A. Cooper
Assigned reference numbers
JA Cooper Fungarium:
JAC12369
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