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Go to the NZFungi website for more indepth information on Biscogniauxia capnodes var. rumpens. Biscogniauxia capnodes var. rumpens

Synonyms

Hypoxylon australis
Hypoxylon nummularium var. australe
Diatrype rumpens
Nummularia australis

Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous. Non endemic
Description: Stromata: Stromata applanate (erumpent from host tissue); perithecia not visible; ostioles finely to caorsely papillate; stroma bipartite, outer dehiscing layer dark brown, thin (initially thick and greyish); stromatal surface dark brown (brown vinaceous), or blackish; tissue immediately below surface carbonaceous; KOH-extractable pigments lacking; tissue below perithecia inconspicuous.
Perithecia: Perithecia tubular; surrounded by papyraceous wall layer, shrinking away from wall of stromatal locule; 0.4-0.6 mm diam.; 0 mm high.
Asci: Stipe short with spores filling about two-thirds of ascus; amyloid ring broader than high.
Ascospores: Ascospores 16.5-25 µm long; 8-10 µm wide; brown; 0-septate; in side view more or less equilateral, or inequilateral, flattened on one side, not curved; in face view elliptic; ends broadly rounded, or narrowly rounded. Germ slit straight, spore-length; on flattened side of spore. Perispore indehiscent in 10% KOH.