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Pyropezia rifaii (J. Moravec & Spooner) Van Vooren, Albanese, Boragine, Lezzi, L.J. Vaughan & Truong, Austral. J. Taxon., 106: 5 (2025).
Basionym Peziza rifaii J. Moravec & Spooner, Trans. Brit. mycol. Soc., 90 (1): 45 (1988).
Diagnosis Apothecia usque 40 mm diam, gregaria vel caespitosa, sessilia, cupuliformia, saepe irregulariter lobata, usque subauriformia. Discus rubro-fuscus vel ferrugineus usque luteofuscus. Pars exterior apothecii minute furfuracea. Asci 220-280 × 8-11 µm, cylindracei, octospori, amyloidei. Paraphyses filiformes, 4 µm crassae, septatae, apice sensim incrassatae (6 µm). Ascosporae 12-14 × 6.0-7.0 (-7.8) µm (ornamento exclusive), ellipsoideae, primum hyalinae, maturae fuscae, sculpturatae, cum costis crassis irregularibus et irregulariter formatis, saepe brevibus et isolatis vel raro etiam confluentibus. New Zealand: ad terram, s. dat., Colenso b 664 (Holotype, K); Colenso b 889.
Type Colenso b 664 (K) - holotypus
MycoBank 860798
Notes
1) Corresponds to Peziza retiderma in the sense of Rifai (1968).
Literature
Moravec J., Spooner B.M. 1988. Peziza vacinii (Pezizales), with notes on taxonomy of related brown-spored species. Transactions of the British mycological Society, 90 (1): 43-48.
Nagao H., Fukiharu T. 2000. Enumeration of the genus Peziza in Japan: Peziza limnaea and Peziza rifaii. Mycoscience, 41 (3): 269-273.
Priou J.P., Delannoy A. 2006. Peziza rifaii, une espèce exotique trouvée en France. Bulletin de la Société mycologique de France, 121 (2): 111-117.
Rifai M.A. 1968. The Australasian Pezizales in the herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, afd. natuurkunde, Sect. 2, 57 (3): 1-295.
Van Vooren N., Albanese A., Boragine M., Lezzi T., LoBuglio K.F., Pfister D.H., Vaughan L.J., Truong C. 2025. Pyropezia, a new genus to accommodate Peziza rifaii (Pezizaceae, Ascomycota). Australian Journal of Taxonomy, 106: 1-11.
Classification: Pezizaceae, Pyropezia
Created on 09/07/2015.
Updated on 05/01/2026.
