Critical revision of type material of Stemonitales (Myxogastria) at the Natural History Museum London (BM)
Author
Moreno, G.
gabriel.moreno@uah.es
Author
Castillo, A.
gabriel.moreno@uah.es
Author
Thüs, H.
Current Address: State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Germany. & The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
text
Phytotaxa
2018
2018-03-14
344
2
149
159
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.344.2.3
journal article
10.11646/phytotaxa.344.2.3
1179-3163
Stemonitopsis microspora
(Lister) Nann.
-Bremek.
Sporocarp stipitate, up to
2.3 mm
high. Sporotheca reddish-brown, cylindrical to fusiform,
2 mm
high–
0.6 mm
wide.
Peridium evanescent. Stalk dark, cylindrical widened at the base, with a length of
0.3 mm
. Columella tapering and reaching almost the apex of the sporotheca. Capillitium reddish-brown, dense, originating along the columela, with perpendicular main branches to columela and a surface network with small meshes and scanty free ends. Spores globose, 3.3–4.8 (–5) × 3.3–4.7(–5) μm, av. 4 × 4 μm, Q
av
=1 (n = 25), violaceous very pale to hyaline and faintly reticulated by LM. Under the SEM, the spore ornamentation is formed by a reticulum with no prominent walls (figs.
8a–g).