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Desmazierella piceicola Huhtinen & Y. Mäkinen, Mycotaxon, 20 (2): 551 (1984).

Basionym Desmazierella piceicola Huhtinen & Y. Mäkinen, Mycotaxon, 20 (2): 551 (1984).

Diagnosis Apothecia 1 mm lata, breviter stipitata, ad maturitatem cupulata. Hymenium griseum, brunneosetosum; apothecia exteriori parte brunnea, dense pilosa. Excipulum externum hyalinum vel brunneum, textura prismatica vel textura angulari, bistratus vel tristratus, cellulis 10-15 × 6-10 µm. Excipulum medullarum hyalinum, textura intricata, hyphis ad 5-10 µm latis, ramosis, non gelatinosis. Pili usque ad 1000 µm longi, erecti et setosi vel flexuosi, multiseptati, superficiali, parietibus usque ad 3 µm crassis, brunneis vel atrobrunneis, irregulariter granulosis; brevissimi pili abundantes, brunnei, granulati, 10-20 × 5-9 µm. Asci 300 × 12 µm, tetraspori, cylindracei, parietibus crassis, non amyloidei, basi irregulariter bifurcata, opercula apicalia, crassa. Ascosporae 48-52 × 11-12 µm, uniseriatae, pallide luteae, fusoides, multiguttulatae, apiculatae, in longitudine costatae; costae cyanophilae, anastomosantes; apiculi persistentes. Paraphyses tenues cylindraceaeque, ad 2-3 µm latae, septatae, ramosae, anastomosantes, multinucleatae, ad apicem brunneogranulatae, pro parte minore setosae et crassotunicatae, ascos 80 µm superantes.
Holotypus in foliis emortuis Piceae abietis, "SW Finland, Turku, Ruissalo, W-side of the nature protection area" grid 27°E 67121:2335, Sept. 26, 1965, Y. Mäkinen (TUR 62942).

Type TUR 62942 - holotypus

MycoBank 106767

Classification: Chorioactidaceae, Desmazierella

Created on 18/06/2015.

Updated on 02/08/2023.