NPP

Non-Pollen Palynomorph Image Database

NPP

...“extra fossils“ in pollen slides

HdV-981

NPP type

Taxonomical Group

Fungi

Type description

Carrion et al 1999: Ascospore dark-brown, elliptic to ventricose, (39–54) X (13–20) μm, triseptate with a major median transverse septum and two minor distal septa. Infra-reticulate spore wall. A similar spore morphology including infra-sculpture has been observed in the pyrenomycete Gnomonia dryadis Averswald (Diaporthaceae) (Barr, 1959). Other resembling spores occur in Herpotrichia diffusa Fuckel, H. rubi Fuckel (Sivanesan, 1984), and Leptosphaeria discors Sacc. et Ellis (Kohlmeyer and Kohlmeyer, 1964).

Records

First publication

Carrión JS, van Geel B (1999) Fine-resolution Upper Weichselian and Holocene palynological record from Navarrés (Valencia, Spain) and a discussion about factors of meditteranean forest succession. Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol. 106:209-236.

Diaporthaceae - Gnomonia dryadis/Herpotrichia diffusa / Leptosphaeria discorssimilar

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