Ascopolyporus purpuratus

Fungi > Ascomycota > Sordariomycetes > Hypocreales > Cordycipitaceae > Ascopolyporus
Ascopolyporus purpuratus
Ascopolyporus purpuratus
Ascopolyporus purpuratus
Ascopolyporus purpuratus
Ascopolyporus purpuratus
Ascopolyporus purpuratus
Ascopolyporus purpuratus
Ascopolyporus purpuratus
Ascopolyporus purpuratus
Ascopolyporus purpuratus
Ascopolyporus purpuratus
Ascopolyporus purpuratus
Ascopolyporus purpuratus
Ascopolyporus purpuratus
Ascopolyporus purpuratus
Ascopolyporus purpuratus
Ascopolyporus purpuratus
Ascopolyporus purpuratus
Ascopolyporus purpuratus


Holotype:

THAILAND, Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Khao Yai National Park, 19 Sep. 2018, J.J. Luangsa-ard, K. Tasanathai, B. Sakolrak, D. Thanakitpipattana, R. Somnuk, S. Mongkolsamrit, W. Noisripoom, W. Himaman, P. Srikitikulchai, holotype BBH 44511, ex-type living culture BCC 88430.


Habitat:

Living stems of dicotyledonous plant


Host:

Scale insects (Coccidae; Hemiptera).


Description:

Stromata epibiotic, flattened to convex, consisting of dense white mycelial mat, upper surface yellow to very pale purple-violet, 5-12 mm long, 3-8 mm wide. Perithecia semi-immersed, crowded, ovoid, 300-420 × 100-150 μm. Asci cylindrical, up to 240 × 2-4 μm. Asci caps 2-4 × 3-4 μm. Ascospores hyaline, whole, filiform, aseptate, 100-220 × 1-1.5 μm.


Culture characteristics:

Colony on PDA attaining a diam of 2.5–3.5 cm in 14 d, slightly convex to the agar surface, vivid orange with white in the middle of colony, reverse strong reddish orange, bright moderate reddish orange pigment diffusing in medium. Phialides arising from aerial hyphae, solitary, cylindrical or acremonium-like, slightly curved, up to 55 μm long, 1–2 μm. wide. Conidia hyaline, enteroblastic, fusiform to acerose, aseptate, aggregated at the apex of the phialides, 5–18 × 1.5–3 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

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RPB1

RPB2

TEF1

BCC 88388 OL322046 - OL322064 OL322033
BCC 88389 OL322047 - - OL322034
BCC 88430 OL322045 OL322059 OL322063 OL322032