Daldinia lloydii Y.-M. Ju, J. D. Rogers, & San Martín

TELEOMORPH | CULTURES AND ANAMORPH | SPECIMENS EXAMINED | NOTES

TELEOMORPH

Daldinia lloydii Y.-M. Ju, J. D. Rogers, & San Martín, Mycotaxon 61: 273. 1997.

º Hypoxylon fissum C. G. Lloyd, Mycol. Writings 7: 1121. 1922; non Daldinia fissa C. G. Lloyd, 1924.

Stromata spherical to hemispherical, sessile, solitary to aggregated, lacking perithecial mounds, 1-3 cm diam x 1-2.2 cm high; surface blackish, densely covered with fulvous (43) polygonal scales; dull brown granules immediately beneath surface, without apparent KOH-extractable pigments; the tissue between perithecia brown, pithy to woody; the tissue below the perithecial layer composed of alternating zones, the darker zones dark brown, pithy to woody, 0.2-0.3 mm thick, the lighter zones brown, mixed with pithy to woody and gelatinous materials, persistent, 0.5 mm thick.

Perithecia tubular, 0.3-0.4 mm diam x 1 mm high.

Ostioles obsolete.

Asci not observed.

Ascospores dark brown, unicellular, ellipsoid-inequilateral, with narrowly rounded ends, 12-16 x 6-7.5 mm, with straight germ slit spore-length on convex side; perispore dehiscent in 10% KOH, smooth; epispore smooth.