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Nanoscypha tetraspora (Seaver) Denison, Mycologia, 64 (3): 619 (1972).
Basionym Cookeina tetraspora Seaver, Mycologia, 17 (2): 45 (1925).
Diagnosis Apothecia gregarious or becoming confluent and occasionally several fused together, the hymenium plane or slightly concave, pale orange, reaching a diameter of 3–5 mm., externally whitish, strongly wrinkled, clothed with delicate fasciculate hairs; asci clavate, reaching a length of 200 µ and a diameter of 12–14 µ, 4-spored; spores ellipsoid, unequal-sided, usually containing two oil drops, 10–11 × 24–27 µ (rarely a little larger), often showing faint striations; paraphyses filiform, slightly enlarged above.
On decaying leaves of some palm, El Yunque, also on rotten wood, same locality.
Type ex herb. Seaver, Johnston 713 (NY) - holotypus
Homotypic Phillipsia tetraspora (Seaver) Le Gal, Discom. Madagascar: 284 (1953) ; Sarcoscypha tetraspora (Seaver) Denison, Rev. Biol. Tropic., 11 (1): 107 (1963).
MycoBank 318492
Literature
Denison W.C. 1963. A preliminary study of the operculate cup-fungi of Costa Rica. Revista de Biología Tropical, 11 (1): 99-129.
Denison W.C. 1972. Central American Pezizales. IV. The Genera Sarcoscypha, Pithya, and Nanoscypha. Mycologia, 64 (3): 609-623.
Pfister D.H. 1973. Notes on Caribbean discomycetes. III. Ascospore germination and growth in culture of Nanoscypha tetraspora (Pezizales, Sarcoscyphineae). Mycologia, 65 (4): 952-956.
Seaver F.J. 1925. Studies in tropical Ascomycetes - III. Porto Rican cup-fungi. Mycologia, 17 (2): 45-50.
Classification: Sarcoscyphaceae, Nanoscypha
Created on 26/02/2025.
Updated on 26/02/2025.
