Acervus epispartius

Coll. HRL0576
© R. Lebeuf

Acervus epispartius (Berk. & Broome) Pfister, Occas. Pap. Farlow Herb. Cryptog. Bot., 8: 3 (1975).

Basionym Peziza epispartia Berk. & Broome, J. Linn. Soc. London, Bot., 14: 103 (1875).

Diagnosis 922. P. (Discina) epispartia, B. & Br. Minor, lobata, expansa, extus tomentoso-pulveracea; hymenio lævi; sporidiis minoribus lævibus; mycelio filiformi (nos. 71, 1054).
Apparently on verry rotten wood. Peradeniya, Nov. 1867.
About an inch across, at first cup-shaped, soon expanded; mycelium consisting of rather thick cylindrical threads; sporidia elliptic, even, .0003 long, .00015 wide.

Type ex herb. Berkeley (K) - holotypus

Homotypic Phialea epispartia (Berk. & Broome) Pat., Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr., 29: 221 (1913) ; Phaedropezia epispartia (Berk. & Broome) Le Gal, Discom. Madagascar: 181 (1953).

Synonyms
Acervus aurantiacus Kanouse, Pap. Michigan Acad. Sci., 23: 149 (1938), fide Pfister (1975).
Peziza flavotingens Berk. & Broome, J. Linn. Soc. London, Bot., 14: 104 (1875); Humaria flavotingens (Berk. & Broome) Sacc., Syll. fung., 8: 129 (1889); Phaedropezia flavotingens (Berk. & Broome) Le Gal, Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles, 29: 96 (1959).
Peziza microspora Berk. & M.A. Curtis, Grevillea, 3 (28): 150 (1875); Humaria microspora (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Sacc., Syll. fung., 8: 131 (1889).
Peziza radiculosa Berk. & Broome, J. Linn. Soc. London, Bot., 14: 103 (1875); Sarcoscypha radiculosa (Berk. & Broome) Sacc., Syll. fung., 8: 155 (1889).

MycoBank 308081

Literature

Akata I., Kaya A. 2013. Three pyronemataceous macrofungi genera, new to Turkish Mycota. Turkish Journal of Botany, 37 (5): 977-980.
Berkeley M.J., Broome C.E. 1875. Enumeration of the Fungi of Ceylon. Part II. Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany, 14: 29-140.
Gamundí I.J. 1970. Hallazgo de Acervus aurantiacus Kanouse en la Argentina (Discomycetes). Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica, 13: 126-128.
Kanouse B.B. 1938. Notes on new or unusual Michigan Discomycetes. V. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Sciences, 23: 149-154.
Korf R.P. 1963. Discomycete flora of Asia. Precursor II: A revision of the genus Acervus and Ascosparassis and their new position in the Pezizales. Lloydia, 26: 21-26.
Le Gal M. 1953. Les Discomycètes de Madagascar.
Le Gal M. 1959. Discomycètes du Congo belge d'après les récoltes de Madame Goossens-Fontana. Bulletin du Jardin botanique de l'Etat, Bruxelles, 29 (2): 73-132.
Moravec J. 1983. Several Operculate Discomycetes from Central and east Africa. Česká Mykologie, 37 (4): 237-251.
Patouillard N. 1913. Quelques champignons du Tonkin. Bulletin de la Société mycologique de France, 29 (2): 206-228.
Pfister D.H. 1975. The genus Acervus (Ascomycetes, Pezizales). Occasional Papers of the Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany, 8: 1-11.
Pfister D.H., Bessette A.E. 1985. More comments on the genus Acervus. Mycotaxon, 22 (2): 435-438.
Wilhelm M. 2017. Acervus epispartius (Pezizales), in der Masoala-Halle des Zoo Zürich gefunden. Ascomycete.org, 9 (7): 273-274.
Zhong L.S., Weng C.F., Xiao S.G., Liu Y.G., Lin R.K. 2009. Study on the biological characters of Acervus epispartius (Berk. & Broome) Pfister forma epispartius. Subtropical Agriculture Research, 5 (2): 120-123.
Zhuang W.Y., Korf R.P. 1989. Some new species and new records of Discomycetes in China. III. Mycotaxon, 35 (2): 297-312.
Zhuang W.Y., Luo J., Zhao P. 2011. Two new species of Acervus (Pezizales) with a key to species of the genus. Mycologia, 103 (2): 400-406.

Classification: Otideaceae, Acervus

Created on 03/06/2015.

Updated on 02/08/2023.

Distribution

Legend: Typus <1950 1950→1980 >1980

Collections List

[IT] Belluno

27/09/2020, leg. F. Padovan
209466 (TUR-A)
Source: Ascomycete.org