Ascopolyporus albus

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Ascopolyporus albus
Ascopolyporus albus
Ascopolyporus albus
Ascopolyporus albus
Ascopolyporus albus
Ascopolyporus albus
Ascopolyporus albus
Ascopolyporus albus
Ascopolyporus albus
Ascopolyporus albus
Ascopolyporus albus
Ascopolyporus albus
Ascopolyporus albus


Holotype:

THAILAND, Chiang Mai Province, Chiang Dao Wildlife Sanctuary, 17 Aug. 2011, K. Tasanathai, P. Srikitikulchai, S. Mongkolsamrit, A. Khonsanit, holotype BBH 30734, ex-type living culture BCC 48975.


Habitat:

Living stem of bamboo.


Host:

Scale insects (Coccidae; Hemiptera)


Description:

Stromata epibiotic, pulvinate, subglobose, globose, white to pinkish white, becoming dark brown when old, 3-6 mm wide, 2-3 mm thick. Perithecia semi-immersed, with slightly protruding orifices, obpyriform, 250-320 × 100-120 μm. Asci cylindrical up to 250 μm. long and 3-4 μm. wide, Asci caps 2-3 × 3-4 μm. Ascospores hyaline, whole, filiform, multi-septate, 95-135 × 1 μm.


Culture characteristics:

Colony on PDA attaining a diam of 3.5–4 cm in 14 d, slightly convex to the agar surface, white, reverse light yellow. Phialides arising from aerial hyphae, solitary, cylindrical, slightly curved, up to 120 μm long, 1–2 μm wide. Conidia hyaline, enteroblastic, fusiform to acerose, early in development aseptate, developing 1-4 septa, aggregated at the apex of the phialides, 8–30 × 2–3.5 μm.




Reference:

  • Thanakitpipattana D, Mongkolsamrit S, Khonsanit A, et al. (2022). Is Hyperdermium Congeneric with Ascopolyporus? Phylogenetic Relationships of Ascopolyporus spp. (Cordycipitaceae, Hypocreales) and a New Genus Neohyperdermium on Scale Insects in Thailand. Journal of Fungi 8: 516.

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/jof8050516
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Reference

Strain

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RPB1

RPB2

TEF1

BCC 48975 OL322048 OL322056 OL322065 OL322035
BCC 48976 OL322049 OL322057 OL322066 OL322036