Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Ascomycetes >> Order: Pezizales | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Ascobolus lineolatus | |||
Author: | Ascobolus lineolatus Brumm., Persoonia Suppl. 1: 120. 1967. |
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Description: | Apothecia scattered, superficial, with a short stalk, 0.3-3 mm broad, 0.5-1 mm high. Disc green to yellowish green, dotted with purplish brown tips of mature asci. Excipulum of textura globulosa. Asci 8-spored, cylindric-clavate, rounded above, tapering below, 134-183 × 15-18 μm; walls turning very pale blue in Melzer’s reagent only when young. Ascospores ellipsoid, 11-13 × 7-8 μm, first hyaline, then purplish brown, ornamented with transverse or oblique, subparallel lines. Paraphyses simple or branched, filiform, 2-3 μm at the base, tips irregularly shaped, embedded in greenish mucus. | |||
Specimens: | Taiwan. Kaohsiung: Fengshan, on deer dung, 26 Feb. 1992, Y.Z. Wang 9315 (TNM F0675); Liukuei, on monkey dung, 30 Nov. 1993, Y.Z. Wang 93112 (TNM F1416). Nantou: Lienhuachih, on rabbit dung, 9 Jan. 1996, Y.Z. Wang 9601 (TNM F4459). |
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Habitat: | Coprophilous. On dung of deer, monkey, rabbit and rat. | |||
Distribution: | Bermuda, North Borneo, Taiwan. |
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References: | Brummelen, J. 1967; Liou, CS and Chen, ZC. 1977. |
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Provided: | Y. Z. Wang |
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Note: | This species is identified by the transverse or oblique ridges on the spore surface. | |||