Biscogniauxia mediterranea (De Not.) Kuntze

TELEOMORPH | CULTURES AND ANAMORPH | SPECIMENS EXAMINED | NOTES

TELEOMORPH

Biscogniauxia mediterranea (De Not.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Plant. 2: 398. 1891.

º Sphaeria mediterranea De Not., Mem. Accad. Torino 13: 96. 1853.

º Nummularia mediterranea (De Not.) Sacc., Syll. Fung. I, p. 400. 1882.

º Hypoxylon mediterraneum (De Not.) J. H. Miller, Mycologia 33: 75. 1941.

º Numulariola mediterranea (De Not.) P. Martin, J. S. African Bot. 35: 312. 1969.

º Nummularia regia (De Not.) Sacc. var. mediterranea (De Not.) Traverso, Fl. Ital. Crypt. I, p. 59. 1906.

= Sphaeria clypeus Schwein., Schrift. Naturf.-Ges. Leipzig I, p. 31. 1822.

º Hypoxylon clypeus (Schwein.) M. A. Curtis, Geol. & Nat. Hist. Survey, N.C. III, p. 140. 1867.

º Diatrype clypeus (Schwein.) Berk., Grevillea 4: 95. 1876.

º Nummularia clypeus (Schwein.) Cooke, Grevillea 12: 6. 1883.

= Hypoxylon regium De Not., Sfer. Ital. Cent. I, fasc. I, n. 12, p. 15. 1863.

º Nummularia regia (De Not.) Sacc., Syll. Fung. I, p. 400. 1882.

= Sphaeria sertata Durieu & Mont., apud Durieu, Fl. Alger. I, p. 455. 1869.

º Hypoxylon sertatum (Durieu & Mont.) Mont., Syll. Crypt., p. 214. 1856.

º Nummularia sertata (Durieu & Mont.) Cooke, Grevillea 11: 126. 1883.

= Hypoxylon repandoides Fuckel, Symb. Myc. Jahrb. Nassau Ver Natur. 23: 236. 1869.

º Nummularia repandoides (Fuckel) Sacc., Syll. Fung. I, p. 400. 1882.

= ? Hypoxylon stigmateum Cooke, Grevillea 7: 4. 1878.

Stromata applanate, 1.8-7 cm long x 0.5-4 cm broad x 0.6-1 mm thick; outer dehiscing layer dark brown, 0.4-0.8 mm thick; mature surface blackish to shiny black; carbonaceous immediately beneath surface and between perithecia; tissue beneath perithecia inconspicuous.

Perithecia obovoid to tubular, laterally flattened, 0.1-0.2 mm diam x 0.5-0.8 mm high, usually with several packed inside the same stromatal locule, 0.3-0.4 mm diam, and sharing a common ostiolar canal.

Ostioles higher than stromatal surface, with openings coarsely papillate.

Asci 160-185 mm total length x 9-12.5 mm broad, the spore-bearing parts 120-150 mm long, the stipes 20-35 mm long, with apical ring bluing in Melzer's iodine reagent, discoid, 2-3 mm high x 4-5 mm broad.

Ascospores brown to dark brown, unicellular, ellipsoid, nearly equilateral, with narrowly to broadly rounded ends, smooth, 15.5-21 x (6.5-) 7-10 mm, with straight germ slit spore-length.