Table 6 Synopsis of morphological characters differentiating the five new Camillea species
From: Five new Camillea (Xylariales) species described from French Guiana
C. cribellum | C. heterostomoides | C. nitida | C. rogersii | C. saulensis | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Surface | Dull black | Dull black | Shiny black | Dull black with a bronze margin | Shiny black |
Thickness | 0.45–0.5 mm | 0.4–0.5 mm | 0.5–0.7 mm | 0.5–0.85 mm | 1.5–1.7 mm |
Ostioles | Minutely umbilicate | In wedge-shaped depressions | In keyhole-shaped rims | In narrowly ellipsoid depressions | Papillate |
Perithecial arrangement | Opening individually | Opening individually | Opening collectively | Opening individually | Opening collectively |
paraphyses | Refractive guttules | Minutely guttulate | Swollen at base | Minutely guttulate | Minutely guttulate |
Spore dimensions and colour | 7–9 × 3.5–4.4 μm, light yellowish | 21.2–26.3 × 6.5–7.4 μm, yellowish | 9.2–11 × 3.8–4.5 μm, light yellowish | 13.3–15.0 × 3.2–3.7 μm, yellowish grey | 14.2–16.5 × 3.8–4.8 μm, light yellowish grey |
Spore shape | Rectangular with one attenuated end | Fusiform heteropolar | Rectangular with one attenuated end | Fusiform-inequilateral with acute ends | Fusiform-inequilateral with acute ends |
Ornamentation by SEM | Angular reticulate-poroid | Reticulate-poroid | Elongatedly reticulate-poroid | Finely pitted | Minutely reticulate-poroid |