Hypoxylon jecorinum Berk. & Ravenel

TELEOMORPH | CULTURES AND ANAMORPH | SPECIMENS EXAMINED | NOTES

TELEOMORPH

Hypoxylon jecorinum Berk. & Ravenel apud Berk., Grevillea 4: 50. 1875.

Stromata effused-pulvinate, plane or with inconspicuous perithecial mounds, 0.9-1.8 mm thick; surface fulvous (43), ochreous (44), or apricot (42); orange red granules immediately beneath surface and between perithecia, with KOH-extractable pigments orange (7); the tissue below the perithecial layer black, 0.6-1.3 mm thick.

Perithecia obovoid to tubular, 0.1-0.2 mm diam x 0.3-0.5 mm high.

Ostioles lower than the stromatal surface.

Asci 100-130 mm total length x 5-6.5 mm broad, the spore-bearing parts 50-65 mm long, the stipes 50-68 mm long, with apical ring bluing in Melzer's iodine reagent, discoid, 0.2-0.5 mm high x 1-1.5 mm broad.

Ascospores brown to dark brown, unicellular, ellipsoid-inequilateral, with narrowly rounded ends, 8-9.5 (-11) x 4-5 mm, with straight or slightly sigmoid germ slit spore-length; perispore dehiscent in 10% KOH, with inconspicuous coil-like ornamentation; epispore smooth.