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Helotium pezizoideum Cooke & W. Phillips 1891

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Helotium pezizoideum Cooke & W. Phillips in Cooke, Grevillea 19 72 (1891)

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Cooke & W. Phillips
Cooke & W. Phillips
1891
72
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Helotium pezizoideum Cooke & W. Phillips 1891
NZ holotype
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Helotium pezizoideum

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pezizoideum

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Helotium pezizoideum Cooke & W. Phillips 1891

Scattered, sessile, cuptilate becoming plane, somewhat repand; hymenium orange yellow, externally white or pallid ; asci cylindraceo-clavate (70 x 7 µ); sporidia 8, fusiform or oblongo-fusiform, straight or slightly curved, 7-12 x 2 µ, paraphyses slenderly filiform.
On dead wood, amongst mosses. Watitaki, New Zealand.

Helotium pezizoideum Cooke & W. Phillips 1891

Helotium pezizoideum Cooke @ Phillips in Grevillea 19, 72 (March 1891).

Apothecia scattered, superficial; disc slightly concave, ochraceous, up to 2 mm. across; receptacle slightly paler, shallow cupshaped, smooth, with a short, stout stalk, usually strigose with white hairs towards the base. Excipulum of slightly undulating parallel hyphae, 5-6 µm wide, lying at a moderate angle to the surface. Asci cylindric-clavate, 70-90 x 6-7 µm, 8-spored, the pore only faintly blued by Melzer's reagent; ascospores biseriate, cylindric-clavate, tapering below, straight or slightly curved, 10-14 x 2.5-3 µm. Paraphyses cylindrical, not enlarged at the tips, 2 µm thick, with granular contents. On decorticated wood.

NEW ZEALAND: Waitaki (Typus). Fig. 16.
QUEENSLAND: unlocalised, Langdon 1460, 21.3.1954.

This is clearly a member of the H. calyculus-H. conscripturn series but is probably worth maintaining as a distinct species because of its narrower ascospores and rather shorter asci.

Helotium pezizoideum Cooke & W. Phillips 1891

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Kew images.

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Helotium pezizoideum Cooke & W. Phillips 1891
Helotium pezizoideum Cooke & W. Phillips (1891)
Helotium pezizoideum Cooke & W. Phillips 1891
Helotium pezizoideum Cooke & W. Phillips (1891)
Helotium pezizoideum Cooke & W. Phillips 1891
Helotium pezizoideum Cooke & W. Phillips 1891

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Helotium pezizoideum Cooke & W. Phillips 1891
New Zealand
Wanganui

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16 June 1993
7 June 2002
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