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Plectronidium australiense

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Kingdom
  
Fungi

Subdivision
  
Pezizomycotina

Family
  
incertae sedis

Rank
  
Species

Division
  
Ascomycota

Order
  
incertae sedis

Genus
  
Plectronidium

Plectronidium australiense is a species of anamorphic fungus. Known only from Australia, where it grows on the dead branches of Banksia canei, it was described as new to science in 1986. Its conidia have a basal appendage and measure 19–26 by 1.5 μm—shorter and narrower than the similar species P. minor, P. sinense, or P. magnoliae.

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Plectronidium australiense Wikipedia