Phylum:Ascomycota >> Class: Ascomycetes >>  Order: Helotiales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Coccomyces foliicola
 
   
   
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Basionym: Coccomyces boydii A. L. Smith f. foliicola Dennis & Spooner, Kew Bull. 32:111. 1977.

Coccomyces foliicola (Dennis & Spooner) Sherwood, Occas. Pap. Farlow. Herb. 15:55-56. 1980.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Stroma completely embedded in the leaf tissue, it tears the epidermis into 3-5 splitting triangle lids when mature. Apothecia intraepidermal in bleached spots bounded by a line stroma on dead leaves, circular, pentagonal or hexagonal, 0.5-1.0 mm diam., opening along indistinct, paler preformed lines of dehiscence to expose the yellowish hymenium. Asci cylindrical-clavate, inoperculate, ascospore entangled together, J-, (104.0)-116.1-(124.0) × (4.2)-6.6-(7.2) μm. Ascospores filiform, smooth, hyaline, without septa, (77.6-)89.4-(96.4) × 2.0 μm. Excipulum absent. Subhymenium coloress, 35-60 μm thick. Paraphyses filiform, with septa, enlarged to 3-5 μm at the apex, cemented in a gel, forming an epithecium.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan. Ilan: Fushan Botanical Garden, on the forest trail, 25 July 1994, M. L. Wu, 940725-L1-1 (TMTC).

 
 
 
 Habitat: Growing on both of upper and lower surfaces of the fallen leaves of broadleaved trees.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

America, Europe and Taiwan.

 
 
 
 References:

Wu, ML and Wang, YZ., 2000; Wu, ML., 1995.

   
   
   
 Provided:

M. L. Wu

 
 
 Note: The scientific name for this fungus was wrongly spelled and reported by Wu and Wang (2000). It should be corrected from Coccomyces foliiose to Coccomyces foliicola. Except little deviation of the size of stroma and thickness of the subhymenium, this species has same characteristics with the species of C. foliicola reported from America.