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 Cookeina colensoi
SynonymsBoedijnopeziza colensoi
Peziza colensoi
Sarcoscypha colensoi
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Non endemic
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Owner: J.A. Cooper | 
Owner: J.A. Cooper | 
Caption: Plate LXXXIX (fig1) Cookeina Colensoi (Berk) Seaver | 
Caption: Plate 50 (fig 8) Cookeina Colensoi (Berk) Seaver | 
Owner: Herb. PDD | 
Caption: Cookeina colensoi
Owner: Kaimai Bush | 
Owner: Herb. PDD |
Article: Seaver, F.J. (1913). Some tropical cup fungi. Mycologia 5(4): 185-193.
Description: Plants stipitate or substipitate, shallow cup-shaped, 1-1.5 cm. in diameter and
about 5 mm. deep, dried plants pale-yellow (probably much brighter when fresh)
marked with concentric rings about the outer margin, externally covered with loose
cells which sometimes approach rudimentary hairs but with no well developed
hairs, wrinkled when dry especially near the base of the cup; stem very short or
almost wanting, sometimes not more than 1 mm. in length, never long as in related
species; asci cylindric, about 400-475 x 20 µ, gradually tapering below; spores 1-seriate
or with the ends slightly overlapping, fusoid with the ends quite strongly
narrowed, with one or two large oil-drops and granular within, striations consisting
of several broad, longitudinal bands extending the length of the spore, 30-40 x 12-15 µ;
paraphyses filiform, scarcely enlarged above.
Distribution: DISTRIBUTION: West Indies, New Zealand, Australia, and Africa.
Notes: The plants of this species examined are almost sessile although the species is often
described and illustrated with a stem several mm. long. The stem is probably
variable as in other species of the genus although it has never been found to attain
the length characteristic of other species of the genus. With the exception of the
shorter stem, and absence of hairs the cups of this species might easily be mistaken
for a subsessile form of Cookeina sulcipes. The spores however are quite different.
Geopyxis Mölderiana P. Henn.² does not seem to differ materially from this species
so far as can be judged from the published description.
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