Aleuria cestrica

Coll. NV 2014.08.44 (leg. J. Cavet)
Coll. NV 2014.08.44 (leg. J. Cavet)
© N. Van Vooren
Coll. NV 2014.08.44
Coll. NV 2014.08.44

Microcharacters 10 µm
© N. Van Vooren


Aleuria cestrica (Ellis & Everh.) Seaver, N. Amer. Cup-fungi (Operc.): 98 (1928).

 

Basionym Peziza cestrica Ellis & Everh., J. Mycol., 1 (12): 152 (1885).

Diagnosis On the ground among moss, West Chester, Pa., Aug. 28, 1885. B. M. Everhart, No. 512. Caespitose, orange yellow, soft, sessile, orbicular or somewhat irregular from mutual pressure, about ½ cm. diameter, concave, with the disk subplicate in the center, smooth or slightly pruinose outside, margin obtuse, texture coarsely vesiculose. Asci cydindrical, sessile, 115-125 × 7-8 µ. Paraphyses rather abruptly thickened, yellow and curved at the tips. Sporidia uniseriate, occupying the upper half of the asci, coarsely echinulate-roughened, binucleate and with a short, straight apiculus at each end, length including the apiculus 11-11 ½ µ, breadth 4-5 µ.
Peziza Chaeteri, Sm., has sporidia much like this, only wanting the appendages.

Type ex herb. Ellis no. 512 (NY) - holotypus

Homotypic Humaria cestrica (Ellis & Everh.) Sacc., Syll. fung., 8: 133 (1889).

Synonyms
Humaria leonina Velen., Novit. mycol. nov.: 147 (1947), fide Svrček (1974).
Aleurina lloydiana Rehm, Ann. mycol., 2 (1): 35 (1904), fide Seaver (1928).
Peziza luteonitens var. josserandii Grelet, Bull. Soc. bot. Centre-Ouest, 1938: 73 (1938), inval.

MycoBank 260366

 

Literature
Dennis R.W.G. 1971. New or interesting British Microfungi. Kew Bulletin, 25 (2): 335-374.
Ellis J.B., Everhart B.M. 1885. New fungi. Journal of Mycology, 1 (12): 148-154.
Grelet L.J. 1938. Les Discomycètes de France d'après la classification de Boudier (Septième fascicule). Bulletin de la Société botanique du Centre-Ouest, 1938: 62-81.
Häffner J. 1993. Die Gattung Aleuria. Rheinland-Pfälzisches Pilzjournal, 3 (1): 6-59.
Kramer C.L. 1956. Notes on Kansas Fungi, I. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 59 (2): 233-235.
Moravec J. 1980. A new collection of Aleuria cestrica (Ell. et Ev.) Seaver from Bulgaria and comments to Aleuria dalhousiensis Thind et Waraitch. Česká Mykologie, 34 (4): 217-221.
Moyne G. 2005. Aleuria cestrica et Trichophaea pseudogregaria récoltés en Franche-Comté. Bulletin mycologique et botanique Dauphiné-Savoie, 176: 31-36.
Priou J.P. 1997. Geopora cervina (Velen.) Schumacher et Aleuria cestrica Seaver - Taxons nouveaux pour la France. Cahiers mycologiques Nantais, 9: 3-6.
Rehm H. 1904. Ascomycetes Americae borealis. A. Discomycetes. Annales Mycologici, 2 (1): 32-37.
Seaver F.J. 1928. The North American Cup-Fungi (Operculates).
Svrček M. 1974. New or less known Discomycetes. I. Česká Mykologie, 28 (3): 129-137.
Van Vooren N. 2017. Contribution à la connaissance des Pézizales (Ascomycota) en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes – 3e partie. Cahiers de la FMBDS, 5: 1-126.

Classification: Pyronemataceae, Aleuria


Created on 20/06/2015.

Updated on 02/08/2023.

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