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Thelocarpon coccosporum
Nomenclature
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Family: ThelocarpaceaeGenus: Thelocarpon
Species:
Thelocarpon coccosporum
SUMMARY
Anamorph: not known.
Teleomorph: ascomata perithecial, 120-200 µm diam, globose, scattered, slightly immersed, the ostiolar region yellow-pruinose, apparently without a thallus. Ascomatal wall ca 30 µm thick above, 20 µm below, colourless. Ostiole with periphyses ca 12 µm in length, shorter at the sides, slightly branched. Interascal tissue absent. Hypothecium I+ pale blue. Asci 70-120 x 12-20, flask-shaped, persistent, not blueing in iodine, enveloped in very viscous hymenial gel that is I+ yellow then yellow-red, KI+ blue, multispored. Ascospores 3.5-5 (-6) µm diam, spherical, aseptate, hyaline, without an epispore, gelatinous sheath or appendages.