NAME Multicellites camerounensis
AGE Oligocene.   AGE span: 33.9...23.03 mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Imperfecti, Phragmosporae.
FIGURE(S)
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FIGURE REFERENCE Salard-Cheboldaeff M, Locquin MV. 1980. Champignons présents au Tertiaire le long du littoral de l' Afrique équatoriale: 105e Congrès National des Sociétée savantes, Caen, 1980, Sciences, fascicule 1, p. 183-195.
SPECIES, AUTHORITY M. camerounensis (Salard-Cheboldaeff & Locquin) Kalgutkar & Jansonius 2000
LOCATION Coast of Equatorial Africa, Gulf of Guinea, Cameroon.
ORIG DESCRIPTION* Phragmospore with terminal cells more light colored [pale-hyaline], inaperturate, septa thickest at the centre, lacking central perforations, spore wall thin, 4+2 cells, 104 x 16 µm.
COMMENTS* Affinity: Ascomycetes.
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Salard-Cheboldaeff M, Locquin MV. 1980. Champignons présents au Tertiaire le long du littoral de l' Afrique équatoriale: 105e Congrès National des Sociétée savantes, Caen, 1980, Sciences, fascicule 1, p. 183-195.
K&J REMARKS In the plate of the original publication, this species appears to have two truncated ends, indicative of terminal hila of a conidium. However, when Mme Salard-Cheboldaeff kindly sent Kalgutkar and Jansonius the original negatives, it was clear that the terminal cells are very thin, but unbroken at the termini. The most appropriate assignment seems to be in Multicellites; the spores of Chaetosphaerites have only two central thick-walled cells.
TYPE
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Chaetosphaerites camerounensis Salard-Cheboldaeff & Locquin 1980, p. 189, pl. 3, fig. 1.; Multicellites camerounensis
SERIAL NUMBER 1100
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.