Seimatosporium cornicola is an ascomycete fungus belonging to the family Amphisphaeriaceae. It is confirmed to be saprobic onto bloody dogwood, a European species. Growth attempts showed it had a slow cycle, taking a week to grow to a diameter of 2.5 cm at 18 °C. Its color and other properties are reportedly: "white to pale brown from above, greyish white from below, with sparse mycelium, flat, margin uneven". It was discovered in Italy in the year 2016 by a group of Chinese researchers.[1]
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| Species: | S.cornicola
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| Seimatosporium cornicola (NN. Wijayawardene & E. Camporesi) (2016)
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- ^ Wijayawardene, Nn (2016). "Two new Seimatosporium species from Italy" (PDF). Mycosphere. 7 (2): 204–213. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/7/2/9.
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