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Mniaecia albida
Nomenclature
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Family: MniaeciaceaeGenus: Mniaecia
SUMMARY
Anamorph: unknown.
Teleomorph: ascomata apothecia, 130-180 (-270) µm diam. and 90-130 µm high, pulvinate to turbinate, white to very pale cream when fully hydrated and yellowish when dry, sessile, scattered or in small clusters. Exciple hyaline, the basal part composed of thin-walled globose cells 6-9.5 µm diam., the outer surface in the upper part covered with short upwards-directed clavate to cylindrical thin-walled cells 9-14.5 in length and 3-4.2 µm diam., the terminal cells further elongated and hypha-like, to ca 35 µm in length and 2.5-3 µm diam., fairly thin-walled, smooth, the apices obtuse. Paraphyses 1.5-2 µm diam., copious, quite thick-walled, unbranched, the ends obtuse and strongly recurved. Asci 59-69 x 8-10 µm, cylindric-clavate to clavate, with a short tapering stalk, thin-walled, not fissitunicate, the apices obtuse, distinctly thickened, not blueing in iodine, 8-spored. Ascospores obliquely uniseriate to biseriate, 8-10.8 x 3.9-5.3 µm, rather variable in shape, ellipsoidal to clavate or cylindric-clavate, often becoming 1- or rarely 2-septate with maturity, very thin-walled, hyaline, smooth, containing multiple small oil droplets, without a perispore.