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The database is hosted by Kiel University
and is established by Magda Wieckowska-
Lüth, Wiebke Kirleis and Kay Schmütz,
Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology.
© Wieckowska-Lüth/Kirleis/Schmütz 2020
Type: HdV-1022
Category: Fungi
Taxonomical identification: Clasterosporium sp.
First publication: Gelorini, V., Verbeken, A., van Geel, B., Cocqyt, C. and Vershuren, D. (2011) Modern non-pollen palynomorphs from East African lake sediments. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 164, 143–173
Other publication/s:
Ellis, M.B. (1971) Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes. Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Kew
Ellis, M.B. and Ellis, J.P. (1985) Microfungi on Land Plants. Croom Helm Ldt, Kent
van Geel, B., Gelorini, V., Lyaruu, A., Aptroot, A., Rucina, S., Marchant, R., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. and Verschuren, D. (2011) Diversity and ecology of tropical African fungal spores from a 25,000-year palaeoenvironmental record in southeastern Kenya. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 164, 174–190
Description: Conidia straight, curved or inversely club-shaped to beaklike; Conico-truncate and protuberant at the base, unequally and asymmetrically 5- or more celled, striate, thick-walled, slightly constricted at the septa, ca. 40–75 × 8–9 μm (length dependent on the number of septa). Cells brown and gradually decreasing in size and colour towards apical part of conidia; End cell subhyaline and strongly tapering.
(Sub-) Fossil occurence: No information
Co-occurence: No information
Modern occurence: Clasterosporium can be found on different plants, of which some are frequently subjected to periodic flooding, such as sedges (Ellis, 1971, Ellis and Ellis, 1985).
Palaeoenvironmental indication: No information