Figure. Ceratosphaeria lampadophora (ILLS159657). A–B. Ascomata. C–D. Asci. E–F. Ascospores. Scale bars: A–B = 200 µm; C–F = 10 µm.
Ceratosphaeria lampadophora (Berk. & Broome) Niessl, Verhandlungen des Naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn 14: 203 (1876).
MycoBank: MB250101.
≡ Sphaeria lampadophora Berk. & Broome, Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3: 372, t. 11: 28 (1859).
Ascomata perithecial, superficial, gregarious to solitary, dark brown to black, globose, ovoid to obpyriform, 350–850 µm diam, with a black, cylindrical neck. Paraphyses unbranched, septate, hyaline. Asci 8-spored, unitunicate, cylindrical, 135–175 × 8–10 µm, with a refractive ring. Ascospores 3–4-seriate in ascus, filiform to fusiform, 5–7-septate, not constricted at septum, hyaline, smooth, 60–75 × 3.5–4.5 µm. Asexual state unknown.
Typification: Broome, Oct. 1855; Broome, Apr. 1855; Pl. XI, fig. 28 (Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3).
Gene sequences: MN313785 (ITS), MN317269 (28S), MN313860 (ACT).
Specimens examined: USA, New Hampshire, Coos, White Mountain National Forest, Jefferson Notch Road at Jefferson Notch, on Betula, 1 Aug. 1983, J.L. Crane and J.D. Schoknecht, 58762 (ILLS159657).
Hosts/substrates: On wood.
Distribution: Australia, Canada (Ontario), Costa Rica (Alajuela, Cartago, Guanacaste, Limón, Puntarenas), Denmark (Sjælland), Ireland, Portugal (Braga), UK (Bath, Somersetshire). USA (New Hampshire, North Carolina, Tennessee, Wisconsin).
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