 Phylum：Ascomycota >> Class： Ascomycetes >> Order： Pyrenulales |
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| Scientific Name： |
Massaria inquinans | |||
| Author： |
Basionym: Sphaeria inquinans Tode, Fungi Mecklenb. 2:17. 1719. Massaria inquinans (Tode) De Not., G. Bot. Ital. 1: 133. 1844. |
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| Description： |
Ascomata 625-975 μm wide, 780-1320 μm high, broadly ovoid, immersed, solitary to gregarious beneath an extensive endostroma which forms a textura epidermoidea and an arch-shaped covering over the ascoma except around the ostiole, with a 390-468 μm wide. The endostroma is pale brown inside and becoming dark brown outside, and externally form a blackened zone. Peridium 40-60 μm wide, composed of 10-15 layers of dark brown, compressed, pseudoparenchymatous cells. Asci 312-370 × 46-58 μm, elliptical, bitunicate, thick-walled, stipitate, arising basally and peripherally. Pseudoparaphyses up to 2 μm wide, trabeuculate, numerous, branched. Ascospores elliptic-fusoid, 68-82 × 17-20 μm, overlapping biseriate in asci, hyaline, smooth, surrounded by a conspicuous, 3-5 μm wide, mucilaginous sheath, 3-septate in the middle region, end cells longer and 25-31 μm long, central cells shorter and 9-15 μm long, the lumen round in the middle cells and elongated in end cells. | |||
| Specimens： |
Taiwan, Taichung Hsien, 29 Jan. 1996, NCHUPP-2439. |
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| Habitat： |
On indet. wood. | |||
| Distribution： |
Europe, North America, Taiwan. |
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| References： |
Chen, CY and Hsieh, WH. 1996; Shoemaker, RA and Müller, E. 1965. |
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| Provided： |
W. H. Hsieh |
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| Note： |
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