Kernia geniculotricha Seth 1968

Animalia sp.; Chaetomium calvescens; Pinus sp.

British Isles; Egypt; Germany; UK.

Colonies. At 28°C with a daily growth rate of 1-1.5 mm, occasionally with faster growing segments, grey brown or nearly black; expanding and submerged hyphae septate, brown, 2.5-4 μm broad. Anamorph. Usually present. Conidiophores. Comprising individual conidiogenous cells. Conidiogenous cells. Ampulliform, elongating percurrently. Conidia. Borne in basipetal sequence, arranged in basipetal chains, clavate, with a truncate base, colourless, 5-11 × 3-4 μm. Ascomata. Superficial, surrounded by delicate hyphae, rarely spherical, usually triangular, elliptical or ovate in surface view, tomentose when young, black when mature, at the attenuated ends usually with a single or a small brush of long appendages, non-ostiolate, 100-350 μm diam.; ascomatal wall thick, composed of several layers of slightly flattened, brown, 3-9 μm sized cells, textura angularis in surface view; ascomatal appendages seta-like, thick-walled, smooth, septate, often undulate and circinate at the tip, up to 1.5 mm long, 4-7 μm broad near the base. Asci. Irregularly disposed, obovate or nearly spherical, thin-walled, evanescent, eight-spored, 10-15 × 8-12 μm. Ascospores. Ellipsoidal, colourless and dextrinoid when young, pale brownish or yellowish when mature, smooth 4.5-7 × 3.5-4.5 μm, with a single, apical germ pore. Paraphyses. Not observed.

Kernia geniculotricha je grzib, co go ôpisoł Seth 1968. Kernia geniculotricha nŏleży do zorty Kernia i familije Microascaceae. Żŏdne podgatōnki niy sōm wymianowane we Catalogue of Life.