Licea biforis Morgan 1893
Details
Details
Licea biforis Morgan, J. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist. 15 131 (1893)
Licea biforis Morgan 1893
Nomenclature
Morgan
Morgan
1893
131
ICN
Licea biforis Morgan 1893
USA
species
Licea biforis
Classification
Descriptions
Licea biforis Morgan 1893
DWM 2734, 3050a, 3155
Fruiting body a sessile sporangium (or sometimes plasmodiocarpous), scattered to gregarious, fusiform, somewhat compressed and occasionally branched, yellow-brown to dark brown or nearly black, 0.1–0.3 mm wide and 0.3–0.8 mm long. Peridium persistent, membranous, thin, dehiscence by means of a preformed longitudinal slit. Spores yellow-brown or brown to almost white in mass, clear yellow to almost colourless by transmitted light, nearly smooth to minutely roughened, 9–12 µm in diameter. Plasmodium watery white, becoming brown.
This species has been reported from Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, and North America (Martin & Alexopoulos 1969, Mitchell 1995, Yammoto 1998, Ukkola 1998). First reported from New Zealand by Mitchell (1992), based on specimens appearing in bark samples placed in moist chamber culture. The bark samples were collected in Bay of Plenty, North Canterbury, and Otago Lakes.
Bark of living trees and leaf litter
Martin & Alexopoulos (1969), Nannenga-Bremekamp (1991), Neubert et al. 1993, Stephenson & Stempen (1994), Lado & Pando (1997), Ing (1999).
No other species of Licea has sessile, elongated (canoe-shaped) sporangia opening by a longitudinal slit
Taxonomic concepts
Global name resources
Metadata
1cb1d073-36b9-11d5-9548-00d0592d548c
scientific name
Names_Fungi
1 March 1994
21 November 2001
