Camposporium pellucidum (Grove) S. Hughes 1951

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Name scientific

Camposporium pellucidum (Grove) S. Hughes 1951

Preferred name

Camposporium pellucidum (Grove) S. Hughes 1951

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Biome=Freshwater;

Nomenclature

Authors

(Grove) S. Hughes

Original authors

Grove

Combination authors

S. Hughes

Publication place

Hughes, S.J. 1951: Studies on micro-fungi. III. Mastigosporium, Camposporium, and Ceratophorum. Mycological Papers. 36.

Year published

1951

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Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Bactrodesmium caulincola var. pellucidum Grove 1886

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Camposporium pellucidum

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Dothideomycetes

Order

Pleosporales

Family

Melanommataceae

Genus

Camposporium

Species

pellucidum

Synonyms

Bactrodesmium caulincola var. pellucidum Grove 1886

Associations

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Association type

Associated organism

Association source

has host

Carpodetus

McKenzie, E.H.C.; Buchanan, P.K.; Johnston, P.R. (2004)

Descriptions

Hughes, S.J. 1978: New Zealand fungi. 25. Miscellaneous species. New Zealand Journal of Botany 16(3): 311-370.

Camposporium pellucidum (Grove) S. Hughes 1951

Collections Examined

On dead wood and dead leaf sheaths. respectively of ( 1 ) Carpodetus serratus Westland, Little Wanganui River. Harihari, 6.1V.1963, DA0M 93641; (2) Rhopalostylis sapida, Auckland Prov., Rangemore Track. Waiatarua. Waitakere Range. 8.V. 1963, DAOM 93548.

Description

Conidia are up to 15-septate. 80-135 x 9-11um, some of them prolonged apically into a narrow hyaline appendage. Scar at truncate base 3-3.5um wide. Ellis (1976) has described C. laundonii from New Zealand, with conidia 4-9-septate 13-17um wide. and with one or two terminal hyaline appendages.

Notes

References: Ellis (1971), Hughes (op. cit.).