Boubovia nicholsonii
Coll. NV 2014.08.02 (leg. M. Meyer)
Coll. NV 2014.08.02 (leg. M. Meyer)
© N. Van Vooren
Coll. NV 2014.08.02
Coll. NV 2014.08.02

Microcharacters = 10 µm
© N. Van Vooren


Boubovia nicholsonii (Massee) Spooner & Y.J. Yao, Mycol. Res., 100 (2): 194 (1996).

 

Basionym Humaria nicholsonii Massee, Naturalist (Hull), 1901: 188 (1901).

Diagnosis Humaria nicholsonii Massee (sp. nov.). Pl. 2, figs. 17-21.
Gregarious, sessile, fleshy, globose at first, gradually becoming plane, or sometimes slightly convex, marginate, glabrous, 4-7 mm. Across, orange-yellow, cortex parenchymatous, cells averaging 6-7 µ diameter; asci cylindrical, 8-spored, 65-70 × 8-9 µ; spores elliptical, smooth, hyaline, ends obtuse, 1-guttulate, 10 × 6 µ; paraphyses filiform, apex not thickened.
On dead beech leaves, Kew Gardens (G. Nicholson).
Well defined by the small asci and spores, and the small cells of the cortex. Not very near to any other known species.

Type leg. Nicholson, 1898 (K) - holotypus

MycoBank 434362

 

Literature
Massee G., Crossland C. 1901. New British Discomycetes. Part I. The Naturalist, 1901: 177-189. 
Yao Y.J., Spooner B.M. 1996. Delimitation of Boubovia and Pulvinula. Mycological Research, 100 (2): 193-194.
Zhuang W.Y. 2002. Some new species and new records of discomycetes in China. X. Mycosystema, 21 (4): 475-479.

 


Classification Boubovia, Coprotaceae


CreatedDate 10/03/2018.

UpdatedDate 21/03/2021.

Boubovia nicholsonii


 Typus  <1950  1950→1980  >1980

Collections Detail
[FR] Saint-Paul-sur-Isère
Cascade du Bayet
14/08/2014, leg. M. Meyer
NV 2014.08.02 
Source: Ascomycete.org
[FR] Pierrefeu-du-Var
Arboretum
22/03/2014, leg. P. Ivaldi
NV 2014.03.06 
Source: Ascomycete.org