|
 Helotium phormium
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
Images (click to enlarge)
Caption: FIG. 22 Helotium phormium. Habit sketch x 20, details x 660. |
Article: Dennis, R.W.G. (1961). Some inoperculate Discomycetes from New Zealand. Kew Bulletin 15(2): 293-320.
Description: Apothecia scattered, erumpent, disc flat, 0.5 mm. diameter, dark brown; receptacle cup-shaped, smooth,
concolorous, soft-fleshed, on a usually paler cylindrical stalk. Excipulum
composed of parallel hyphae, 3-5 µ wide, thinwalled, lying at a low angle to the surface and
with their tips protruding as short, downy, nonseptate, cylindrical hairs. Asci clavate, 130 x
15-21 µ, 8-spored, pore outlined blue in Melzer's reagent; ascospores biseriate, elliptic-cylindric
with somewhat pointed ends, straight or slightly curved, nonseptate, 26-34 x 5-6 µ;
paraphyses cylindrical, obtuse, about 2-3 µ thick at the apex.
Article: Cooke, M.C. (1879). New Zealand fungi. Grevillea 8(46): 54-68.
|