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Taphrophila trichella
Nomenclature
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Family: TubeufiaceaeGenus: Taphrophila
SUMMARY
Anamorph: not known.
Teleomorph: ascostromata 100-120 µm diam., scattered or gregarious, epigenous or hypogenous, superficial. occasionally abundant on the detritus-rich portion above the leaf sheath, brown, globose to doliiform, with a rather variable fringe of dark brown, unbranched or ± irregularly branched setae. Setae 20-40 (-55) µm in length, thick-walled and smooth to slightly torulose, tapering to a slightly rounded or ± acute tip. Peridiurn composed of 3-5 layers of slightly flattened cells, cell walls of the outer 2-3 layers slightly thickened, (yellow-) brown, individual cells 4-8 x 2.5-4 µmin size, cell walls of the inner layers thin, hyaline. Interascal tissue of pseudoparaphyses 1.5-2 µm diam., apparently not always present; short hyaline periphyses lining the ostiolar canal. Asci (45-) 50-70 (-75) x (10-) 12-14 (-15) µm, ± cylindrical to fusiform-cylindrical, almost sessile, the apex attenuated and rounded with an inconspicuous apical cap, possibly with rostrate dehiscence, 8-spored. Ascospores arranged in a fascicle, (40-) 45-60 (-70) x 3-3.7 µm, filiform- to fusiform-cylindrical, tapering towards each end, flexuous, the ends obtuse, sometimes coiled in the ascus, hyaline, with 10-12 (-15) inconspicuous septa, smooth, with small guttules, without an epispore or gelatinous sheath or appendages.