Helotium sordidum W. Phillips 1886

Details

Name scientific

Helotium sordidum W. Phillips in Cooke, Grevillea 15 17 (1886)

Preferred name

Hymenoscyphus subsordidus (Dennis) Dennis 1964

Nomenclature

Authors

W. Phillips

Original authors

W. Phillips

Publication place

Cooke, M.C. 1886: Exotic fungi. Grevillea 15(73): 16-18.

Year published

1886

Publication page

Nomenclatural status

illegitimate

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Helotium sordidum W. Phillips 1886

Blocking name

Helotium sordidum (Fuckel) Rehm 1878

Type locality

NZ holotype

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Helotium sordidum

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Leotiomycetes

Order

Helotiales

Family

Helotiaceae

Genus

Helotium

Species

sordidum

Descriptions

Cooke, M.C. 1886: Exotic fungi. Grevillea 15(73): 16-18.

Helotium sordidum W. Phillips 1886

Description

Scattered. Cups 1-3 mm. broad, stipitate, concave, becoming plane, dirty brown, margin slightly paler, entire; stem stout, pallid, white and tomentose at the base; asci cylindrical, 8-spored. Sporidia elliptic, .007-.009x .003-.004 mm., paraphyses not seen.

Notes

Allied to H. fibuliforme, Fr., but differs in the size and shape of the soridia.

Typification

Under rotten wood. New Zealand (Colenso, 313).

Johnston, P.R. 2010: Kew Type Specimens - images and notes from P.R. Johnston, 2010.