VIRTUAL MYCOTA: NZ Fungi Identification: Hymenoscyphus pseudociliatus

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Hymenoscyphus pseudociliatus

Synonyms

Cyathicula pseudociliata
Helotium pseudociliatum
Hydnum pseudociliatum

Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous. Endemic

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Caption: FIG. 23. Helotium pseudociliatum. Habit sketch x 12, details x 660.

Article: Saccardo, P.A. (1889). Discomyceteae et Phymatosphaeriaceae. Sylloge Fungorum 8: 3-859 Padua: (http://194.203.77.76/LibriFungorum/Search.asp?ItemType=I).
Habitat: in ligno putri New Zealand (COLENSO).

Article: Dennis, R.W.G. (1961). Some inoperculate Discomycetes from New Zealand. Kew Bulletin 15(2): 293-320.
Description: Apothecia scattered, superficial, disc concave, flesh coloured, 3 mm. wide; receptacle soft, cupshaped, smooth, with a minutely crenate margin, seated on a short stout stalk. Excipulum composed of slender, parallel, compact hyphae, 2 µ wide, with thin, hyaline, nongelatinised walls, lying at a low angle, to the surface. Asci clavate, 145 x 11 µ, 8-spored, pore outlined blue in Melzer's reagent; ascospores biseriate, narrowly elliptical to inequilateral, 18-25 x 4-5 µ, nonseptate; paraphyses cylindrical, obtuse, 1.5 µ thick.
Notes: Colenso B380 is labelled 'Margin red and ciliate' but that of the dried material is now perfectly even.

Article: Carpenter, S.E. (1981). Monograph of Crocicreas (Ascomycetes, Helotiales, Leotiaceae). Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 33: 1-290.
Notes: I have examined the holotype specimen of Helotium pseudociliatum and find that this species is an Hymenoscypus S. F. Gray. The outer ectal excipulum is composed of a textura prismatica. Dennis (1964) indicated that P. pseudociliatum might be a Cyathicula, but he was not entirely satisfied with that placement. Since no combination in Hymenoscyphus has been made for P. pseudociliatum, it is provided here.

Article: Cooke, M.C. (1886). Exotic fungi. Grevillea 15(73): 16-18.
Description: Scattered. Cups 1-2 mm. broad, sessile, or substipitate, concave, reddish flesh colour, margin fringed with hair-like scales; asci cylindrically-clavate, 8-spored. Sporidia oblong-fusiform or clavate, sometimes bent, .02-.025 x .005-.006 mm., paraphyses filiform, slender.