Gilkeya compacta

Coll. 2005-04-02
Coll. 2005-04-02
© M. Trappe

Gilkeya compacta (Harkn.) M.E. Smith & Trappe, Mycologia, 98 (5): 705 (2007).

 

Basionym Hydnocystis compacta Harkn., Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., Ser. III (Bot.), 1 (8): 262 (1899).

Diagnosis 55. Hydnocystis compacta, sp. nov. Plate XLIII, Figs. 11a-11c.
Minute, reddish brown, subrotund, cavernous without exterior opening, minutely and closely papillose; gleba compact, white; asci cylindrical, obtuse, 175 µ in length, 8-spored; spores globose, hyaline and unequally papillose, 25 µ in diam.
Type, No. 98, Harkness Coll. Under Libocedrus, Alta, Placer County, Calif., May.

Type BPI 863939 - holotypus

Homotypic Genea intermedia Gilkey, Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot., 6: 303 (1916) ; Myrmecocystis compacta (Harkn.) Gilkey, N. Amer. Flora, Ser. II, 1: 7 (1954).

MycoBank 501373

Notes
1) Genea intermedia is a nom. nov. due to G. compacta Harkn. (1899).

 

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.
Gilkey H.M. 1916. A revision of Tuberales of California. University of California Publications in Botany, 6 (11): 275-356.
Gilkey H.M. 1954. Tuberales. North American Flora, ser. II, 1: 1-36.
Harkness H.W. 1899. Californian Hypogaeous Fungi. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 3rd series, 1 (8): 241-292.
Smith M.E., Trappe J.M., Rizzo D.M. 2006. Genea, Genabea and Gilkeya gen. nov.: ascomata and ectomycorrhiza formation in a Quercus woodland. Mycologia, 98 (5): 699-716.

Classification: Pyronemataceae, Gilkeya


Created on 02/07/2015.

Updated on 03/08/2023.

Distribution

Collections List

Conditions d'utilisation | Confidentialité | Copyright 2009-2024 by Ascomycete.org