Thaxteria Sacc.


Sylloge Fungorum 9:687. 1891.

Typus
: T. didyma (Speg.) Sacc.
Location of type
: LPS
Type studies
: Fitzpatrick (Mycologia 15:45-67. 1923.)
Anamorph:
Status:
Number of epithets:
2
Monograph:
Additional literature:


ascomata gregarious, turbinate to clavate, with a sterile basal stalk, glabrous or tuberculate, collapsing laterally or sometimes apically

paraphyses filiform, numerous

asci clavate, long-stipitate, 8-spored

ascospores allantoid, brown, 1-3 septate, 20 x 6 µm

Terrestrial habitat, found on decaying wood

Distribution to date: Argentina, Puerto Rico, other locations [Costa Rica, French Guiana (Huhndorf, unpubl.)]


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