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Saccosoma album (Burt) Spirin 2018

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Spirin
Burt
(Burt) Spirin
2018
336
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Saccosoma album

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New Zealand: Queenstown, Otago, G. H. Cunningham, 542, type, comm. by J. R. Weir (in Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 59315).
Fructifications resupinate, effused, adnate, thick, fleshy, white, somewhat colliculose, pulverulent, contracting in drying and forming a few large fissures at 2-3 mm. apart, the margin somewhat tomentose; in structure 600-700 µ thick, not colored, composed of densely interwoven and ascending, even-walled, hyaline hyphae 3-4 µ in diameter, occasionally nodose-septate, not encrusted; no probasidia seen; spore-bearing organs straight, 3-septate, 75 x 6 µ, confined to the outer 150 µ of the hymenium, only rarely reaching the surface and protruding; spores simple hyaline, even, 10-12-15 x 7-9 µ, borne singly on the outer 3 cells of the spore-bearing organs so far as observed; surface of the hymenium composed of slender, hyaline, matted and coiled paraphyses or hyphal branches 2 µ in diameter.
Fructifications 1-3 cm. long, 1-1½ cm. wide.
On bark of dead, fallen branches of Nothofagus. New Zealand. December.
S. album somewhat resembles Corticium portentosum and is exceptional, if there is no error in the collector's data, by its occurrence on dead, fallen branches. The hymenial surface of coiled paraphyses, absence of probasidia, and hyphae extending from all parts of the substratum into the fructification without consolidation into supporting pillars are additional characters for recognition of the species.
On dead bark and wood of (1) Lophomyrtus bullata, Hamilton, Claudelands Reserve, Jan. 1954, G. H. Cunningham; (2) Metrosideros excelsa, Coromandel, Dec. 1946, J. M. Dingley; (3) Nothofagus fusca, Ahaura, Orwel Creek, 26 April 1955, J. M. Dingley (2 collections); (4) N. menziesii, Queenstown, 3 Dec. 1919, G. H. Cunningham (ISOTYPE, PDD 542); (5) N. solandri var. cliffortioides, Lake Rotoiti, 26 April 1956, S. D. & P. J. Brook.
Fructifications arid, indeterminate, pallid cream when fresh, changing little on drying, effused, forming irregular areas up to 6 cm in extent, 0.5-l mm thick, surface pulverulent or pruinose, creviced when old. In section composed of two poorly differentiated regions, lower region coin-posed of ascending hyphae with slightly thickened walls, 4-5.5 µm diam.; upper region composed of coiled, compactly arranged hyphae, 2-5-3.5 µm diam., spirally coiled apically; hyphae of both regions sparingly septate, clamp connections present. Probasidia arising laterally from intercalary primordial cells, thin-walled, clavate, straight or curved, often constricted in one to several places, 50-80 x 7-12 µm. Metabasidia arising from base of probasidia or from upper portion of primordial cells, subclavate, transversely 3-septate, 35-55 x 8-10-5µm.; sterigmata to 10 µm long. Basidiospores ovoid, slightly flattened on one side, hyaline, apiculus truncated, 10-16 x 7-9.5 µm. Germination by repetition.
Angiosperm bark and wood.
Couch, Mycologia 41: 436, f. 15-23. 1949.
Helicogloea alba was first described by Burt as a species of Septobasidium but was excluded from that genus by Couch (1938, p. 295) on the grounds that it was not associated with scale insects on living plants.
As pointed out by Couch Helicogloea alba agrees with the description of H. contorta Baker in many respects, but the two species apparently differ in texture. H. contorta is described as floccose whereas the texture of H. alba is corticioid. Macroscopically, H. alba closely resembles Scytinostroma portentosum (Berk. & Curt.) Donk.
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Helicogloea alba (Burt) Couch 1949
Saccosoma album (Burt) Spirin 2018
Saccosoma album (Burt) Spirin 2018
Saccosoma album (Burt) Spirin 2018
Saccosoma album (Burt) Spirin 2018
Septobasidium album Burt 1926
Saccosoma album (Burt) Spirin 2018

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31 October 2018
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