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Fracchiaea rasa (Berk.) Sacc. 1882

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Fracchiaea rasa (Berk.) Sacc. 1882
Fracchiaea rasa (Berk.) Sacc. 1882

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Endemic
Present
New Zealand
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(Berk.) Sacc.
Berk.
Sacc.
Saccardo, P.A. 1882: Sylloge Pyrenomycetum, Vol. I. Saccardo, P.A. Sylloge Fungorum. 1.
1882
95
ICN
Sphaeria rasa Berk. 1855
NZ holotype
species
Fracchiaea rasa

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Fungi
Ascomycota
Sordariomycetes
Coronophorales
Nitschkiaceae
Fracchiaea
rasa

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Berkeley, M.J. Fungi. In: Hooker, J.D. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part II. Flowerless Plants. Lovell Reeve. 172-210, 338.

Sphaeria rasa Berk. 1855

Forming little round neat clusters. Perithecia oblong, crowded together below, free above, and convex, not collapsing, pierced with a minute orifice, opaque, as if minutely downy, but in reality rough from the projecting dissepiments of the external cells, as if they had been shaved off. Asci cylindrical, slightly attenuated below, containing multitudes of curved sporidia 1/5500 of an inch long.
conferta, peritheciis oblongis apice convexo obtuso liberis, ostiolo punctiformi, superficie opaca quasi rasa, ascis farctis, sporidiis curvulis.
A very distinct species, well characterized by its peculiar surface and fructification.
On dead decorticated Weinmannia, head of the River Manawatu, Colenso.

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Fracchiaea rasa (Berk.) Sacc. 1882
Fracchiaea rasa (Berk.) Sacc. (1882)
Hitchmough, R. (compiler) (2002)
Fracchiaea rasa (Berk.) Sacc. 1882
Fracchiaea rasa (Berk.) Sacc. (1882)
Pennycook, S.R.; Galloway, D.J. (2004)
Fracchiaea rasa (Berk.) Sacc. 1882
Fracchiaea rasa (Berk.) Sacc. (1882)
Saccardo, P.A. (1882)
Sphaeria rasa Berk. 1855
Sphaeria rasa Berk. (1855)
Berkeley, M.J.

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20 September 2000
15 December 2003
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