Coll. 2017-03-21
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Iconotype (Pl. XVII, fig. 48-51, arranged)
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Coll. 2017-03-21
Ascospores
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Saccobolus quadrisporus Massee & E.S. Salmon, Annals Bot., 15: 329 (1901).
Basionym Saccobolus quadrisporus Massee & E.S. Salmon, Annals Bot., 15: 329 (1901).
Diagnosis Saccobolus quadrisporus, sp. nov. (Figs. 48-51).
Apotheciis ½-⅔ mm. diam., primo plus minus convexulis diaphanis aquoso-violaceis demum planis opacis atro-violaceis vel nigrescentibus, maturitate disco ob ascos exsilientes brunneo-punctato, ascis subcylindraceis sursum truncatis, deorsum bre viter stipitatis saepe curvatis 95-110 × 18-20 µ, jodo caerulescentibus quadrisporis; paraphysibus simplicibus vel furcatis filiformibus apice clavulatis septatis; glomerulis sporidiorum ellipticis 40-45 × 15-16 µ, sacculo communi hyalino inclusis, sporidiis in una vel duabus seriebus ordinatis atro-violaceis, 20 × 8-10 µ, praesertim ad margines verrucis minutis praeditis.
Hab. — In fimo anserino, Royal Gardens, Kew, Nov. 1900.
A congeneribus ascis quadrisporis distinguenda.
Type NY 00914991 - holotypus
MycoBank 238839
Literature
Brummelen J. (van) 1967. A World-monograph of the genera Ascobolus and Saccobolus (Ascomycetes, Pezizales). Persoonia, supplement, I: 1-260.
De Sloover J. 2002. On four species of Saccobolus (Ascobolaceae, Pezizales) rarely collected or new to Belgium. Systematic and Geography of Plants, 72: 211-224.
Massee G., Salmon E.S. 1901. Researches on Coprophilous Fungi. Annals of Botany, 15: 313-357.
Classification: Ascobolaceae, Saccobolus
Created on 13/04/2021.
Updated on 14/08/2023.
