Otidea apophysata (Cooke & W. Phillips) Sacc., Syll. fung., 8: 96 (1889).
Basionym Peziza apophysata Cooke & W. Phillips, in Cooke, Grevillea, 5 (34): 60 (1876).
Diagnosis Brown, unequal, irregularly lobed and contorted, or with one side elongated; disc dark brown; asci cylindrical; sporidia elliptic, binucleate; paraphyses slender, with short, furcate, and often clavate branches above.
In a damp ditch. Shrewsbury. W. Phillips, Esq.
The paraphyses differ from any that we have yet seen in their peculiar branching, and in the almost universal presence of these lateral expansions. Cups ½ - 1 inch broad; sporidia .02-.022 × .012 m.m.
Type K(M) 30410 - holotypus
Homotypic Pseudotis apophysata (Cooke & W. Phillips) Boud., Hist. class. discom. Eur.: 52 (1907).
Misinterpretation
Otidea felina (Pers.) Bres., (), s. Boudier (1905-1910), non Pers., nec Bres.
MycoBank 160327
Literature
Cooke M.C. 1875-1879. Mycographia, seu icones fungorum.
Cooke M.C. 1876. New British Fungi. Grevillea, 5 (34): 56-64.
Häffner J., Winterhoff W. 1989. Rezente Ascomycetenfunde VI. Otidea apophysata (Cooke & Phill.) Sacc. Ein extrem seltener Öhrling. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Pilze Mitteleuropas, 5: 175-184.
Kasparek F. 2000. Über einige bemerkenswerte Schlauchpilze. Der Tintling, 19 (1): 7-15.
Olariaga I., Van Vooren N., Carbone M., Hansen K. 2015. A monograph of Otidea (Pyronemataceae, Pezizomycetes). Persoonia, 35: 166-229.
Parslow M., Spooner B.M. 2013. The British species of Otidea: overview and the large-spored species. Mycosystema, 32 (3): 347-365.
Pérez-Butrón J.L., Fernández Vicente J. 2008. Otidea apophysata, en la península ibérica. Errotari, 5: 36-43.
Van Vooren N. 2011. Le genre Otidea. V. Otidea apophysata et ses interprétations. Bulletin mycologique et botanique Dauphiné-Savoie, 200-201: 165-174.
Classification: Otideaceae, Otidea
Created on 30/03/2016.
Updated on 06/08/2023.
