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 Perrotia lutea
SynonymsErinella novae-zelandiae
Erinella lutea
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Non endemic
Article: Massee, G.E. (1896). New or critical fungi. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 34: 145-154 London:.
Description: Gregarious, narrowed below into a short stem-like base, clavate and closed at first, then
expanding and becoming pear-shaped, 2-3 mm. across; disc concave, pale yellow, externally
tawny, densely clothed with septate, obtuse, cylindrical, brown, thin-walled hairs, 60-80 x 4-5
µ, usually rough with minute particles of lime; hairs forming the margin longer and pale,
except at the tip;. excipulum parenchymatous, cells 6-9 µ diameter; asci clavate; apex broad
and very obtuse-tapering below into a slender, usually crooked pedicel, wall thick except at
the alpex, 8-spored; spores arranged in a parallel bundle, very long and narrowly clavate,
apex 5 µ thick, rounded and gradually tapering to the pointed base, multiseptate, hyaline,
smooth, straight or sliightly curved, 85-95 µ long; paraphyses septate, hyaline, not thickened
at the tip, 2 ½ - 3 µ thick.
Habitat: On dead wood and bark.
Distribution: New Zealand.
Notes: A very beautiful species, superficially resembling Lachnella pulverulentia, but rather larger,
and with very different spores. Allied to Erinella lutea Phil., a native of Victoria, but
differing in the very broadly rounded apex of the ascus and the narrowly clavate spore.
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