Basionym: Hypocrella schizostachyi Henn. Hedwigia 47: 253 (1908)

Anamorph state: unknown

Specimens were found on bamboo culms. Hosts are scale insects (Hemiptera). Stroma, hemispherical, up to 12 mm diam., 8 mm high. Hywel-Jones and Samuels (1998) described the fresh specimen from Thailand as “strongly botryoso-tuberculate, cerebriform, very hard and resinous when fresh, irregularly furrowed, verrucose or irregularly tuberculate. Exterior color yellowish grey, yellowish brown to grey-brown or buff, becoming carbonaceous blackish brown to black. Interior pale cream-brown or yellow-brown or orange-yellow, becoming chalky white to cream-white. Perithecia scattered, embedded, pyriform, 260-560 x 145-260 µm in diam., body comparatively small, neck, long, ostioles slightly projecting, walls to 35 µm thick, Paraphyses not seen. Asci 160-250 x 6-8 µm with caps 3 µm tall. Part-ascospores cylindrical with rounded ends, 8-11 x 1.5-2.0 µm.” In culture the colonies on PDA are very slow-growing, attaining a diam. of 5 mm after 8 wk on PDA at 20oC. Collections of Moelleriella schizostachyi have been from Khao Yai National Park, Nam Nao National Park, Khao Sabap National Park, Mae Wong National Park and Umphang Wildlife Sanctuary.

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