Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Ascomycetes >> Order: Pezizales | ||||
BCRC Number: | NO BCRC Number! | |||
Scientific Name: | Saccobolus saccoboloides | |||
Author: | Basionym: Ascobolus saccoboloides Seaver, Mycologia 36: 640. 1967. Saccobolus saccoboloides (Seaver) Brumm., Persoonia Suppl. 1: 168. 1967. |
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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). |
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Habitat: | Coprophilous. On dung of textile fabrics and on dung of cow, pig, and sheep. | |||
Distribution: | Pantropical-subtropical. |
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References: | Brummelen, J. 1967; Wang, YZ. 1993. |
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Provided: | Y. Z. Wang |
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Note: | It is characterized by the loosely attached and finely granulate brown ascospores. | |||