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 Bulbillomyces farinosus
SynonymsAegerita candida
Peniophora aegerita
Kneiffia farinosa
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Non endemic
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Caption: conidia on bark
Owner: J.A. Cooper | 
Caption: conidia
Owner: J.A. Cooper | 
Owner: J.A. Cooper | 
Owner: J.A. Cooper | 
Caption: fragment of conidium. Note clamps.
Owner: J.A. Cooper |
Article: Cooper, J.A. (2005). New Zealand hyphomycete fungi: additional records, new species, and notes on interesting collections. New Zealand Journal of Botany 43(1): 323-349 (http://www.rsnz.org/publish/abstracts.php).
Description: This description applies to the anamorphic Aegerita state. On the underside of decorticated wood in damp and semi-submerged conditions. The propagules are easily detached from the substratum, white, granular, spherical, reaching 400 µm diam. Microscopically they are seen to consist of a shell of smooth subglobose to pyriform cells 12–20 × 10–15 µm, surrounding a hyphal cortex. Clamp connections are present on the stalk cells. Colonies are sometimes accompanied by the Bulbillomyces state. See Eriksson & Ryvarden (1976) and Breitenbach & Kränzlin (1986) for descriptions and illustrations of both states from European material.
Notes: New record from New Zealand. The anamorph (Aegerita candida) of the resupinate, corticioid basidiomycete, Bulbillomyces farinosus, is common (in Europe at least) on rotten, decorticated wood in damp conditions.
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