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Synonyms

Helotium quintiniae

Biostatus

Present in region - Indigenous. Endemic

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Caption: Asci and ascospores
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Caption: Asci and ascospores
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Caption: Apothecia (dry)
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Caption: Apothecia (dry)
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Caption: Gelatinous excipulum (Squash)
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Caption: Gelatinous excipulum (Squash)
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Caption: Gelatinous excipulum (Squash)
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Caption: Asci, ascospores, and paraphyses
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Caption: Asci, ascospores, and paraphyses
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Caption: Asci, ascospores, and paraphyses
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Caption: Excipulum (Squash)
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Caption: Asci, ascospores and paraphyses, hymenium embedded in gel
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Caption: Ascospores
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Caption: FIG. 24 Helotium quintiniae. Habit sketch x 10, details x 660.
Caption: Dry specimen. Discs about 0.4 mm diam.
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Caption: Apothecia about 0.3-0.4 mm diam., erumpent in groups through bark.
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Caption: Excipulum (squash)
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Article: Dennis, R.W.G. (1961). Some inoperculate Discomycetes from New Zealand. Kew Bulletin 15(2): 293-320.
Notes: The densely clustered apothecia suggest the presence of some kind of stroma within the bark but I can detect neither sclerotium nor black line in sections cut through the bark beneath the clusters. I am, therefore, constrained to refer the species to Helotiun instead of to some genus of the Sclerotiniaceae as its appearance would at first sight suggest. Pseudohelotiurn microcenangium Penz. & Sacc. looks rather similar but with shorter stipe and apparently a different structure, 'contextu excipuli parenchymatico flavicante'.

Article: Dennis, R.W.G. (1964). Remarks on the genus Hymenoscyphus S.F. Gray, with observations on sundry species referred by Saccardo and others to the genera Helotium, Pezizella or Phialea. Persoonia 3(1): 29-80.
Description: Spores 5 x 2 ยต.
Notes: SERIES 6. Cupreum. Stipitate tropical or South temperate species on woody substrata, with excipulum of parallel hyphae, asci mostly I+ and small rod-like spores