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 Helotium subsordidum
SynonymsHelotium sordidum
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
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Caption: FIG. 26 Helotium subsordidum . Habit sketch x 15, details x 660. |
Article: Dennis, R.W.G. (1961). Some inoperculate Discomycetes from New Zealand. Kew Bulletin 15(2): 293-320.
Description: Apothecia gregarious, superficial, disc concave, 2 mm. diameter, about Snuff Brown
(Ridgway); receptacle smooth, saucer-shaped, concolorous or darker, with a slender
cylindrical stalk, arising from a weft of white mycelium. Excipulum composed of parallel thin-walled hyphae,
about 3 µ wide, at a low angle to the surface. Asci cylindric-clavate, 85-90 x 6
µ, 8-spored, pore not blued by Melzer's reagent; ascospores uniseriate, elliptical or somewhat
pointed below, 7-8 x 4 µ; paraphyses cylindrical, obtuse, 2 µ wide.
Article: Cooke, M.C. (1886). Exotic fungi. Grevillea 15(73): 16-18.
Description: Scattered. Cups 1-3 mm. broad, stipitate, concave, becoming plane, dirty brown, margin
slightly paler, entire; stem stout, pallid, white and tomentose at the base; asci cylindrical, 8-spored.
Sporidia elliptic, .007-.009x .003-.004 mm., paraphyses not seen.
Notes: Allied to H. fibuliforme, Fr., but differs in the size and shape of the soridia.
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