2 Citations
FIGURE 3. Basidia and basidiospores of Exobasidium siroboe on infected fruit of Symplocos myrtacea collected in Kagoshima Prefecture (INM-2-17577-055270). Basidium with 4 sterigmata (arrow) (A) or with 3 sterigmata (arrow) (B), basidiospores ovoid (C) to fusiform (D, E), one-celled when formed, becoming septate with 3 septa (arrows) (C). Basidiospore germination of E. siroboe on potato dextrose agar after 24 h of incubation (F); conidia (arrows) were produced on the germ tubes that emerged from basidiospores after 24h (G). b: basidiospore. Scale bars: A–E = 3 µm, F,G = 20 µm. Photographed by Hideyuki Nagao.