Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Ascomycetes >>  Order: Pezizales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Saccobolus saccoboloides
 
   
   
 Author:

Basionym: Ascobolus saccoboloides Seaver, Mycologia 36: 640. 1967.

Saccobolus saccoboloides (Seaver) Brumm., Persoonia Suppl. 1: 168. 1967.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Apothecia gregarious or scattered, disc-like, 0.2-0.5 mm wide, receptacle pale yellow, smooth, without margin, disc light yellow, dotted with ripe asci. Excipulum of textura angularis, cells 9-12 × 6-9 μm. Asci 8-spored, broadly clavate, 87-93 × 15-20 μm, walls turning blue in Melzer’s reagent, spores not cemented together at maturity. Ascospores fusoid-ellipsoid, smooth, 15-18 × 7-9 μm, hyaline at first, brown when mature. Paraphyses filiform, simple, 2.5-3 μm wide.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Hualien: Cholu, on sheep dung, 21 July 1994, Y.Z. Wang 94043 (TNM F2244). Tainan: Jente, on cow dung, 29 Nov. 1993, Y.Z. Wang 93114 (TNM F1429).

 
 
 
 Habitat: Coprophilous. On dung of textile fabrics and on dung of cow, pig, and sheep.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Pantropical-subtropical.

 
 
 
 References:

Brummelen, J. 1967; Wang, YZ. 1993.

   
   
   
 Provided:

Y. Z. Wang

 
 
 Note: It is characterized by the loosely attached and finely granulate brown ascospores.