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 Kretzschmaria zelandica
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
Description: Stromata: Stromata spherical, or upright (taller than broad); tightly aggregated, often crust-like; 2-5 mm diam.; perithecia not visible; ostioles finely papillate; stromatal surface dark brown (brown vinaceous), or blackish; tissue immediately below surface carbonaceous; KOH-extractable pigments lacking; tissue below perithecia disintegrating, stromata essentially hollow at maturity.
Perithecia: Perithecia more or less globose; 0.4-0.5 mm diam.
Asci: Stipe long with spores more or less confined to upper third of ascus; amyloid ring broader than high, or approximately equal in dimensions.
Ascospores: Ascospores 12-15 µm long; 4.5-6 µm wide; brown; 0-septate; in side view inequilateral, flattened on one side, not curved; in face view fusoid, or elliptic; ends narrowly rounded. Germ slit straight, less than spore-length; on flattened side of spore. Perispore indehiscent in 10% KOH.
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