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

Saccobolus verrucisporus Brumm., Persoonia Suppl. 1:199. 1967.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Apothecia gregarious or scattered, cylindrical or subglobular, up to 250 μm wide, smooth, without margins, disc convex, white to pink, dotted with the protruding tips of mature asci. Excipulum of textura angularis, layer 20-50 μm thick, cells small, 7.5-10 × 5-7.5 μm. Asci 8-spored, broadly clavate, 102-125 × 25-35 μm, walls turning blue in Melzer’s reagent. Spore clusters 35-42.5 × 15-20 μm, with a unilateral mucilaginous sheath, arranged according to pattern II (Brummelen 1967). Ascospores fusoid-ellipsoid, 15-17 × 10-11 μm, dark violet, ornamented with large warts. Paraphyses filiform, simple or branched, slightly expanded at the tips, 2-3 μm wide.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan. Hualien: Yuli, on goat dung, 27 July 1992, Y.Z. Wang 9273 (TNM F0665); Yuli, on deer dung, 10 Dec. 1992, Y.Z. Wang 92147 (TNM F0695). Yilan: Fushan Botanical Garden, on muntjac dung, 30 Jan. 1996, Y.Z. Wang 9617 (TNM F4474); Fushan Botanical Garden, on muntjac dung, 11 Feb. 1997, Y.Z. Wang 9705 (TNM F5713). Kaohsiung: Liukuei, Shanping, on monkey dung, 12 Dec. 1994, Y.Z. Wang 94078 (TNM F 2774).

 
 
 
 Habitat: Coprophilous. On dung of roe-deer, deer, goat, and monkey.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Pantropical-subtropical.

 
 
 
 References:

Brummelen, J. 1969; Wang, YZ. 1995.

   
   
   
 Provided:

Y. Z. Wang

 
 
 Note: This species is characterized by pinkish apothecia and warty ascospores. It is close to S. thaxteri Brumm. but with larger warts.