Stemonitopsis typhina (F.H. Wigg.) Nann.-Bremek. 1975 [1974]
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Stemonitopsis typhina (F.H. Wigg.) Nann.-Bremek. 1975 [1974]
Stemonitopsis typhina (F.H. Wigg.) Nann.-Bremek. 1975 [1974]
Biostatus
Nomenclature
(F.H. Wigg.) Nann.-Bremek.
F.H. Wigg.
Nann.-Bremek.
1975
1974
209
ICN
species
Stemonitopsis typhina
Classification
Synonyms
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Descriptions
Stemonitopsis typhina (F.H. Wigg.) Nann.-Bremek. 1975 [1974]
PDD 17613, 28573.
Fruiting body a stalked sporangium, scattered to gregarious, 2–5 mm high, erect. Sporotheca cylindrical to somewhat ovate and tapering above, erect, dark or purplish brown or occasionally grey, 0.2–0.6 mm in diameter. Stalk slender, dark red to nearly black, typically about half the total height of the sporangium, often covered with a silvery film. Hypothallus contiguous for a group of sporangia, reddish-brown. Peridium membranous, silvery, usually persisting in mature fruiting bodies as scattered patches or sometimes as a shallow calyculus at the base of the sporotheca. Capillitium a dense network of pale brown threads with numerous anastomoses. Spores brown in mass, very pale lilac-brown by transmitted light, faintly punctate with scattered clusters of dark warts, 6–8 µm in diameter. Plasmodium translucently white.
Cosmopolitan (Martin & Alexopoulos 1969), although most common in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. First reported (as Stemonitis typhoides) from New Zealand by Berkeley (1855), based on a specimen collected by W. [and elsewhere]Colenso in Hawkes Bay. Colenso (1887) later reported the species from the same locality. Also known from Auckland, Wellington, Fiordland, Dunedin (Lister & Lister 1905), Southland, the Auckland Islands, and Stewart Island (Lister & Lister 1905). This is the most common species of Stemnitopsis in New Zealand.
Decaying wood and (less commonly) bark.
Martin & Alexopoulos (1969), Nannenga-Bremekamp (1991), Stephenson & Stempen (1994), Ing (1999), Neubert et al. (2000).
The clusters of dark warts on the spores are usually quite evident and make this a relatively easy species to identify.
Taxonomic concepts
Comatricha typhina (F.H. Wigg.) Rostaf. (1874)
Comatricha typhoides (Bull.) Rostaf. (1894)
Comatricha typhoides (Bull.) Rostaf. (1894)
Comatricha typhoides (Bull.) Rostaf. (1894)
Comatricha typhoides (Bull.) Rostaf. (1894)
Comatricha typhoides (Bull.) Rostaf. (1894)
Comatricha typhoides (Bull.) Rostaf. (1894)
Comatricha typhoides (Bull.) Rostaf. (1894)
Comatricha typhoides (Bull.) Rostaf. (1894)
Comatricha typhoides (Bull.) Rostaf. (1894)
Comatricha typhoides (Bull.) Rostaf. (1894)
Stemonitis atra Massee (1892)
Stemonitopsis typhina (F.H. Wigg.) Nann.-Bremek. 1975 [1974]
Stemonitis typhoides (Bull.) DC. (1805)
Stemonitopsis typhina (F.H. Wigg.) Nann.-Bremek. 1975 [1974]
Stemonitopsis typhina (F.H. Wigg.) Nann.-Bremek. (1975) [1974]
Stemonitopsis typhina (F.H. Wigg.) Nann.-Bremek. 1975 [1974]
Stemonitopsis typhina (F.H. Wigg.) Nann.-Bremek. (1975) [1974]
Stemonitopsis typhina (F.H. Wigg.) Nann.-Bremek. 1975 [1974]
Stemonitopsis typhina (F.H. Wigg.) Nann.-Bremek. (1975) [1974]
Stemonitopsis typhina (F.H. Wigg.) Nann.-Bremek. 1975 [1974]
Stemonitopsis typhina (F.H. Wigg.) Nann.-Bremek. (1975) [1974]
Stemonitopsis typhina (F.H. Wigg.) Nann.-Bremek. 1975 [1974]
Stemonitopsis typhina (F.H. Wigg.) Nann.-Bremek. (1975) [1974]
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7 November 1994
23 November 2001
