HdV-1049

Taxonomical Group

Fungi

Type description

Van Geel et al 2011: Conidia fusiform, 28–34×14–16 μm, with large and dark central cell (too dark to see septa, if any) and shorter other cells; one end cell is pale, the other one rather dark. Identified with reference to Ellis (1971).
Gelorini et al 2011: Conidia club-shaped, unequally and asymmetrically 3-celled, smooth, very thick-walled, with two pale to dark brown larger cells and one more subhyaline smaller and narrower basal cell, 27×13 μm, central zone very dark, septum only visible with overexposure to light, other (parts of) cells paler.

Records

First publication

van Geel B, Gelorini V, Lyaruu A, Aptroot A, Rucina S, Marchant R, Sinninghe Damsté JS, Verschuren D (2011) Diversity and ecology of tropical African fungal spores from a 25,000-year palaeoenvironmental record in southeastern Kenya. Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol. 164:174-190.