Entoleuca callimorpha Syd.

TELEOMORPH | CULTURES AND ANAMORPH | SPECIMENS EXAMINED | NOTES

NOTES

Martin (1967b) and Miller (1961) believed E. callimorpha to be a synonym of H. mammatum, the latter seeing the essentially immature isotype material at BPI. Material that we consider to be holotype at W has abundant mature ascospores, but is devoid of intact asci. The ascospore dimensions are close to those cited in Sydow and Petrak (1922). Ascospores of some collections of H. mammatum examined were 22.0-28.0 x 9.0-9.5(-11.0) mm. Miller (1961) gives them as 20-33 x 9-12 mm and Petrini and Müller (1986) give them as 19-27 x 7-10(-12) mm. In any case, ascospores of H. mammatum average much larger than those of E. callimorpha. Moreover, the ascospores of H. mammatum are more or less rectangular in outline.

As far as we know, Entoleuca callimorpha has not been collected in recent times and never cultured. The bark-rupturing pegs typical of the following species were not seen in these collections.