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Hydnoplicata convoluta (McAlpine) Trappe & Claridge, Austral. Mycol., 25 (1): 34 (2006).
Basionym Hydnocystis convoluta McAlpine, Agric. Gaz. New South Wales, 7: 86 (1896).
Diagnosis 32. Hydnocystis convoluta, M’Alp., n. sp. Convoluted Hydnoxystis.
Entirely white. An irregularly convoluted, hollow sac, externally roughened, internally smooth, about 2×2 inches, and narrowing towards the ground, wall about one line thick, and composed of an outer layer of subcartilaginous or brittle fleshy substance and an inner one of compact hymenium. Asci cylindrical, stalked, colourless, up to 256 µ long, containing 8 sporidia, and intermixed with slender, filamentous jointed paraphyses. Sporidia hyaline, spherical or oval, slightly verrucose, about 9 µ in dia., or 10-11 × 8.5 µ.
On ground in woods. July. Waterworks, Hobart (Rodway, 21).
Type Rodway no. 21 (K) - holotypus
Homotypic Hydnotrya convoluta (McAlpine) McLennan, Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, 74: 115 (1961) ; Peziza jactata Burds. & Korf, Mycologia, 60 (3): 520 (1968).
Synonyms
Hydnoplicata whitei Gilkey, Mycologia, 46: 784 (1954); Peziza whitei (Gilkey) Trappe, Mycotaxon, 2 (1): 112 (1975).
MycoBank 522325
Notes
1) Peziza jactata is a nomen novum proposed by Burds. & Korf (in Burdsall, 1968) due to Peziza convoluta Peck.
Literature
Burdsall H.H. 1968. A revision of the genus Hydnocystis (Tuberales) and of the hypogeous species of Geopora (Pezizales). Mycologia, 60 (3): 496-525.
McAlpine D., Rodway L. 1896. Australian fungi. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 7: 84-87.
McLennan E.I. 1961. Australian Tuberales. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 74 (2): 111-117.
Trappe J.M. 1975. Generic synonyms in the Tuberales. Mycotaxon, 2 (1): 109-122.
Trappe J.M., Claridge A.W. 2006. Australasian sequestrate fungi 17: the genus Hydnoplicata (Ascomycota, Pezizaceae) resurrected. Australasian Mycologist, 25 (1): 33-36.
Classification: Pezizaceae, Hydnoplicata
Created on 10/06/2015.
Updated on 02/08/2023.
