Excipula gregaria Berk. 1855
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Excipula gregaria Berk. 1855
Nomenclature
Berk.
Berk.
1855
202
ICN
Excipula gregaria Berk. 1855
NZ holotype
species
Excipula gregaria
Classification
Descriptions
Excipula gregaria Berk. 1855
Crowded upon a brownish spot, often following the direction of the main nerves, minute; cups black externally; disc pale. Asci clavate, rather thick. Sporidia obovate-oblong, 1/2250 of an inch long. Endochrome at length obscurely bipartite.
On the upper side of the living leaves of some Gnaphalium, Colenso.
minuta, extus nigra, maculae fusae inspersa, hymenio pallido, ascis amplis clavatis, sporidiis obovato-oblongis, endochromate demum bipartito.
Excipula gregaria Berk. 1855
On the upper surface of living leaves of a species of Gnaphalium. New Zealand (Colenso, nn. 5056 & 5272).
Erumpent; gregarious or scattered; disc pallid, externally blackish, glabrous, about 1/2 mm. across; cortex parenchymatous, cells small; asci cylindric-clavate, apex rounded, not blue with iodine, narrowed below into a slender pedicel, 100 x 9-10 µ; spores 8, irregularly 2-seriate in the upper part of the ascus, 1-seriate towards the base, hyaline, smooth, elliptical or sometimes inclined to be narrowly egg-shaped, or obovate, 10-12 x 4-5 µ; paraphyses numerous, very slender, tips very slightly or frequently not at all thickened.
This species is a typical Pseudopeziza, and will stand as P. GREGARIA.
Taxonomic concepts
Global name resources
Notes
typification
[New Zealand On the upper surface of the living leaves of some Gnaphalium', Colenso s.n. (type). K(M)
Metadata
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scientific name
Names_Fungi
16 July 1993
22 October 2004