Aleurina ferruginea

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Aleurina ferruginea (W. Phillips) W.Y. Zhuang & Korf, Mycotaxon, 26: 372 (1986).

 

Basionym Rhizina ferruginea W. Phillips, in Cooke, Grevillea, 16 (79): 74 (1888).

Diagnosis Apothecia orbicularia, sessilia, concava, demum subapplanata, margine integro, leniter elevato vel incurvo, hymenio fuligineo-fusco, extus tomentello ferrugineo-fusco, ascis cylindraceo-clavatis, sporidiis ellipticis, uni-vel biguttulatis, asperulis (20-23 × 4-5 µ) paraphysibus superne incrassatis, septatis.
On dead wood. Victoria, Australia. (C. French.)
Cups ½ to nearly 1 in. broad; rigid when dry , gelatinous and tough when moist. Very nearly allied to Rhizina thwaitesii, B., but the sporidia do not approach fusiform, and the exterior is not clad with the black hairs of that species.

Type ex herb. Phillips (K) - holotypus

Homotypic Jafneadelphus ferrugineus (W. Phillips) Rifai, Verh. K. ned. Akad. Wet., tweede sect., 57 (3): 85 (1968).

Synonyms
Aleurina tasmanica Massee, Bull. Misc. Inf., Kew, 1898: 131 (1898); Jafnea tasmanica (Massee) Gamundí, Darwiniana, 13 (2-4): 584 (1964).

MycoBank 103018

 

Literature
Cooke M.C. 1888. Australian fungi (cont. from p. 31). Grevillea, 12 (79): 72-76.
Gamundí I.J. 1964. « Discomycetes » operculados del Parque Nacional Natuel Haupi Argentina. Darwiniana, 13 (2-4): 568-606.
Massee G. 1898. Fungi exotici, I. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Informations, Royal Botanical Gardens Kew, 1898: 113-136.
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.

Classification: Pyronemataceae, Aleurina


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Updated on 02/08/2023.

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