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Ernakulamia cochinensis

Ernakulamia cochinensis

(Subram.) Subram., Kavaka 22/23: 67 (1996) [1994]

 

Classification: Ascomycota-Pezizomycotina-Dothideomycetes-Pleosporales- Tetraplosphaeriaceae - Ernakulamia

 

Host species: Caryota mitis (Xiong et al. 2025)

 

Known distribution: China (Xiong et al. 2025), Cuba (Delgado et al. 2017), India (Delgado et al. 2017), Panama (Delgado et al. 2017).

 

IF Number: IF374840      Mycobank Number: 374840     FOF Number: FoF09277

 

Description

Saprobic on dead petiole of Caryota mitis. Sexual morph Undetermined. Colonies on natural substrate effuse, black. Conidiophores and Conidiogenous cells not observed. Conidia variable in shape, subglobose, obconical, broadly ellipsoidal to broadly pyriform, muriform, dark brown to blackish brown, verrucose at the base, 50–105 × 40–80 μm, (x̅ = 76 × 56 μm, n = 25), with 3–10 cylindrical, straight or flexuous, septate, brown, smooth appendages, up to 30–115 μm long, 3–5 μm wide.

Culture conditions: Colonies on PDA, reaching 12–16 mm diam. after 2 weeks at room temperature (25°C), circular, velvety, gray, slightly darker in the center and raised, margin entire, reverse dark gray.

 

 

Ernakulamia cochinensis (MHZU 24-0476, new host record). a, b Appearance of sporadithia on host substrate. c–g conidia. h Culture on PDA from above and reverse. Scale bars c–g = 20 μm.

 

Reference

Delgado G, Koukol O, Cáceres O, Piepenbring M. 2017 – The phylogenetic placement of Ernakulamia cochinensis within Pleosporales (Dothideomycetes, Ascomycota). Cryptogamie Mycologie 38, 435–451. https://doi.org/10.7872/crym/v38.iss4.2017.435

Xiong YR, Manawasinghe IS, Ausana Mapook 2025 – Addition to Tropical palm fungi: Ten new Records from China and Thailand. Asian Journal of Mycology

 

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