Coll. MV20130922-01
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Octospora lilacina (Seaver) Svrček & Kubicka, Česká Mykol., 17 (2): 65 (1963).
Basionym Humarina lilacina Seaver, N. Amer. Cup-Fungi (Opercul.): 128 (1928).
Diagnosis Apothecia rather thickly gregarious or rarely with several in close contact but not usually congested, at first globose or subglobose, expanding and becoming subdiscoid, reaching a diameter of 0.5 mm. or rarely as large as 1 mm., reddish, with a decided lilac tinge; hymenium at first concave, finally plane or convex, the margin becoming indistinct, roughened by the protruding asci, the color similar to that of the outside of the apothecium; asci clavate or subclavate, reaching a length of 200 µ and a diameter of 15–17 µ, 8-spored; spores 1-seriate or becoming irregularly crowded, ellipsoid, usually containing one large often eccentric oil-drop half the diameter of the spore, 10 × 15–17 µ; paraphyses strongly enlarged above, septate, filled with coarse granules which are subhyaline or with a pale-lilac tinge.
On the ground which has been overrun with mosses and algae.
Type NYBG 00915327 - holotypus
MycoBank 335274
Literature
Benkert D., Brouwer E. 2004. New species of Octospora and some further remarkable bryoparasitic Pezizales from The Netherlands. Persoonia, 18 (3): 381-391.
Eckstein J., Eckstein G. 2013. Bemerkenswerte Funde bryoparasitischer Pezizales (Ascomycota) aus Deutschland. Boletus, 34: 55-66.
Engel H., Hanff B. 1985. In Nordwestoberfranken gefundene Arten der Gattung Octospora Hedwig ex S. F. Gray. Die Pilzflora Nordwestoberfrankens, 9: 3-20.
Kristiansen R. 2006. Miniatyrbegersopper nye for Norge. Agarica, 26: 69-77.
Ribollet P. 2015. Contribution à la connaissance des genres Octospora Hedw. 1789 et Lamprospora De Not. 1864 en Loire-Atlantique. Première partie : le genre Octospora Hedw. 1789. Cahiers mycologiques Nantais, 27: 3-12.
Seaver F.J. 1928. The North American Cup-Fungi (Operculates).
Svrček M., Kubička J. 1963. Deuxième contribution à la connaissance des Discomycètes operculés de la region de l´étang „Dvořiště“ en Sud-Bohême. Česká Mykologie, 17 (2): 61-70.
Classification: Pyronemataceae, Octospora
Created on 20/01/2021.
Updated on 12/08/2023.
