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 Ephelina gregaria
SynonymsExcipula gregaria
Pseudopeziza gregaria
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
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Caption: FIG. 35. Ephelina gregaria. Portion of leaf bearing apothecia x 5, diagrammatic section x
60, with brown tissue shaded, section of margin x 660. | 
Caption: dried specimen, apothecia less than 1 mm across
Owner: Herb PDD |
Article: Dennis, R.W.G. (1961). Some inoperculate Discomycetes from New Zealand. Kew Bulletin 15(2): 293-320.
Description: Apothecia gregarious, sessile on a superficial epiphyllous thallus, discoid, black throughout
when dry, disc convex, 0.5 mm. across, dingy yellow with a brown margin when soaked up;
receptacle smooth. Excipulum composed of parallel, septate, brown hyphae, 3 µ wide, paler
and more irregularly disposed towards the surface; thallus of interwoven brown hyphae like
those of the excipulum, algal cells not seen. Asci cylindric-clavate, 8-spored, rather thick-walled,
75 x 10 µ (100 x 9-10 µ, Massee), apex rounded, not blued by Melzer's reagent;
ascospores uniseriate or irregularly biseriate above, ovoid, 11-13 x 4-5 µ, with 2-3 oil bodies,
hyaline, perhaps eventually 1-septate; paraphyses hyaline, cylindrical, apex rounded, about 2 µ
wide.
Notes: Neither the superficial habit not the prosenchymatous excipulum support Massee's
interpretation of this as a Pseudopeziza and I cannot at present improve on Saccardo's
disposition of it.
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: ad paginam superiorem foliorum Gnaphalii Nova Zelandia septentr. (COLENSO).
Article: Berkeley, M.J. (1855). Fungi. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part II. Flowerless Plants. The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage II Hooker, J.D. (eds.) 378 p. 172-210, 338 London: Lovell Reeve.
Description: Crowded upon a brownish spot, often following the direction of the main nerves, minute;
cups black externally; disc pale. Asci clavate, rather thick. Sporidia obovate-oblong, 1/2250
of an inch long. Endochrome at length obscurely bipartite.
Habitat: On the upper side of the living leaves of some Gnaphalium, Colenso.
Article: Massee, G.E. (1901) [1901-04]. Redescriptions of Berkeley's types of fungi - Part II. Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany 35: 90-119 London: (http://194.203.77.76/LibriFungorum/Search.asp?ItemType=J).
Description: Erumpent; gregarious or scattered; disc pallid, externally blackish, glabrous, about 1/2 mm.
across; cortex parenchymatous, cells small; asci cylindric-clavate, apex rounded, not blue
with iodine, narrowed below into a slender pedicel, 100 x 9-10 µ; spores 8, irregularly 2-seriate in the upper part of the ascus, 1-seriate towards the base, hyaline, smooth, elliptical or
sometimes inclined to be narrowly egg-shaped, or obovate, 10-12 x 4-5 µ; paraphyses
numerous, very slender, tips very slightly or frequently not at all thickened.
Notes: This species is a typical Pseudopeziza, and will stand as P. GREGARIA.
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